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T1 Translation of metaphors in song lyrics from Disney animated films: a case study
A1 Fernández Medina, Cristina
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 Song
K1 Metaphor
K1 Translation
K1 Spanish/English
K1 Disney
K1 Canción
K1 Metáfora
K1 Traducción
K1 Español/inglés
K1 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
AB The translation of metaphors in song lyrics poses unique challenges due to the interaction between poetic language, musical constraints, and cultural references. This paper aims to analyze the translation of metaphors in songs from recent Disney animated films focusing on the specific challenges presented by the translation of figurative language in the context of audiovisual translation (AVT). For this purpose, metaphors were extracted from English original songs translated into peninsular Spanish in films such as Encanto, Raya and the Last Dragon, Wish and Moana 2. The analysis combines the cognitive model for classifying metaphors by Lakoff and Johnson (1980), with the metaphor-specific translation techniques proposed by Newmark (1988) and the translation procedures of Vinay and Darbelnet (1995), studying how translators face the multiple constrains involve in the translation of metaphors in song lyrics for dubbing. The results show a predominance of structural and ontological metaphors, with the most frequent translation strategies being “same image reproduced in the TL” and “metaphor converted into sense” according to Newmark (1988), and modulation and literal translation following Vinay and Darbelnet´s (1995) model.
YR 2025
FD 2025
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/79769
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/79769
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 23-nov-2025