A cognitive poetic analysis of LIFE and DEATH in English and Ukrainian : a multiple-parallel-text approach to Hamlet's soliloquy

• Authors: Svitlana Shurma , Wei-Lun Lu
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article zeroes in on the discrepancy between the verbalization of life and death in Hamlet's soliloquy 'To be or not to be' in the English version and three Ukrainian ones. The Multiple-Parallel-Text-based analysis shows that the conceptual metaphors living is existing, dying is not existing, death is sleep, death is a country, death is a journey and life is a burden reconstructed from the original have been largely left intact in the translations. However, we find that the actual verbalization and conceptualization in the two languages are highly culture-specific and that the versions exhibit great inter- and intra-language variations.

Keywords

EN

cognitive poetics; soliloquy; translation; conceptual metaphor; contrastive linguistics; life and death; MultiParT; parallel texts

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts
• Journal: Theatralia: Revue současného myšlení o divadelní kultuře (Theatralia: The revue of contemporary thought on theatre culture)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 9-28
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Svitlana Shurma

• Theatralia, redakce, Masarykova univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, Katedra divadelních studií, Arna Nováka 1, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic

author

Wei-Lun Lu

• Theatralia, redakce, Masarykova univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, Katedra divadelních studií, Arna Nováka 1, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic