Asymmetry Factors Of Russian Morbial Metaphors, Their Translations Into English And German
Table 4: The component analysis of the translation equivalents’ meanings
English translation | German translation | |
Comparison criteria | doomed | verlorenes |
The degree of referential meaning’s similarity | 1 | 1 |
Is the image of the translated metaphor similar to the image of an original one? | 0 (no) | 0 (no) |
Does pragmatic meaning remain unchanged? | 1 (yes) | 0,7 (the meaning is the second in the frequency) |
Is there any new culture-specific connotation? | 0 (unfavorable destiny) | 1 (no) |
The equivalence degree, % | 50 | 67,5 |