The Contrastive Study and Translation Strategies on Conceptual Metaphor in Chinese and English Political Discourses

Abstract

This thesis is intended to make a contrastive analysis with regard to the use of metaphors the public speeches at foreign university made by the American politicians and by the Chinese politicians with the guidance of Layoff's conceptual metaphor theory so as to find out the similarities and differences in metaphors in Chinese and English political discourses. The ultimate purpose of this thesis is to put forward some strategies, which will benefit future metaphor translation.