英语广告中的双关语
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摘要:双关英语是英语广告中一种常见的修辞手段,文章从谐音双关、语义双关、习语双关等几方面阐述双关在广告英语相关论文中的运用,并对广告英语中双关的翻译作了初步的探讨。
关键词:双关;英语广告;分类;应用;翻译在现代商品经济社会,广告几乎无处不在,但有的广告默默无闻,有的广告则深入人心,被广为传诵。
为使自己的广告能在瞬间吸引人们的注意,给人们留下深刻印象,并激起其购买的欲望,各个广告作者总是特别注意各种修辞手段的运用,挖空心思地追求新的创意,以创造出精辟独到、生动形象、效果非凡的广告词。
由于双关语具有“一举两得”,“一箭双雕”和“借水行舟”的机智与诙谐,具有简洁凝练、新颖别致等修辞效果,因而在广告中得以大量应用。
一、双关语的分类及其在英语广告中的应用双关就是利用语词字形或主意相同而语义不同的情况,使一个语词和句子在特定的语境中产生双重意义的修辞方式,[1]英语中的双关主要有以下四种:1、谐音双关英语中谐音双关称,指利用词语拼写相似,发音相同或相近的关系构成的双关[2],也就是用发音相同或相近但意义不同的词来代替所要表达的本意。
广告制作者非常乐于使用此种双关修辞方式,其风趣、幽默、俏皮、滑稽的语言风格,可大大增加广告的说服力和感染力,给受众留下深刻的印象。
某机场商店的广告:例1 Have a nice trip,buy-buy!译文:祝您旅途愉快,拜拜∕快买!此处“buy-buy”是个变异拼写,与bye-bye(再见)同音。
该词表达了机场商店向旅客道别之意,又不失时机地提醒大家,临行之前买些东西带上吧。
“buy-buy”一词构思巧妙,幽默诙谐,富有辞趣。
译文“拜拜∕/快买”保留了这个双关语的两层意思。
另外,有些广告在商品品牌的名称上做文章。
品牌名称中的双关语不仅能增加广告的趣味性,更重要的是品牌名称更能吸引人们的注意力,便于记忆,从而达到广而告之的目的。
某高科技产品广告:例2 From sharp minds,comeSharp products.译文:智慧产品,来自夏普。
摘要:双关作为一种修辞手段 ,就是在特定的语言环境中用一种语言文字形式表达出一明一暗双重含义。
双关辞格运用在广告中 ,能够使广告言简意赅 ,回味悠长 ,给消费者留下深刻的印象 ,符合现代生活节奏的需要。
本文从谐音双关和词义双关两方面 ,对双关辞格在广告中的运用及其效果作了初步探讨。
关键词:双关;谐音双关;词义双关;双重语境Abstract :The principle of advertisement requires that the most complicate meaning be conveyed in the fewestwords. Punning , owing to it s concise language and rich connotation , meet s the demands of advertisement in allaspect s. Thus , it is widely adopted in all kinds of advertisement s to achieve the best communicative purpose andto arouse the customers’emotional appeal and provoke certain purchasing action. Key words :punning ;pun on homophone ;pun on homograph ;double context一、双关辞格的构成基础及本质特点双关是修辞学上辞格之一。
它是利用语言文字上同音或同义的关系 ,使一句话关系到两件事 ,如“玉带林中挂 ,金簪雪里埋” (红楼梦第五回) , “林”字音形双关 ,指“林黛玉”的“林”, “雪”字谐音双关 ,指“薛宝钗”的“薛”。
Princeton Encyclopedia of Poet ryand Poetics ( 《普林斯顿诗学百科全书》 )中这样定义pun : ” a figure of speech depending upon a similarityof sound and a disparity of meaning”,也指出双关的形成依靠的是词汇声音的相似与意义的不同。
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作者签名:日期:年月日摘要在竞争激烈的商品时代,广告对产品的销售,企业的壮大起着举足轻重的作用。
别出心裁的广告语往往能促进产品的推广,刺激消费,并且给人以美的享受。
广告英语中的双关语正是起着画龙点睛的作用。
本文提出广告英语中双关语可分为语音双关、语义双关、语法双关、仿拟双关和借代双关,指出广告英语中双关语具有简洁、创新、趣味、和美学性等特点。
广告英语中成功地运用双关语可传递信息、吸引注意、刺激消费。
关键词:广告英语双关语分类特点作用AbstractIn a highly competitive commercial age, advertisements play a decisive role in promoting the goods and strengthening the enterprises. An original advertisement can facilitate the publicity of a certain product, stimulate the consumption and give people the enjoyment of beauty. Puns in the advertising English serve as a finishing touch. The article proposes that puns in advertising English can be divided into phonological puns, semantic puns, grammatical puns, parody puns and metonymy puns. It points out that puns in advertising English is characterized with being concise, innovative, amusing and aesthetical. Successful employment of puns in advertising English may deliver information, attract people’s attention and stimulate consumption.Key words: advertising English puns classification features function目录摘要............................................................................................................................. i ii Abstract ......................................................................................................................... i v Ⅰ.引言.. (1)II.文献综述 (1)2.1国内研究综述 (1)2.2国外研究综述 (2)Ⅲ.广告中的双关语 (2)3.1双关语的定义 (2)3.2双关语的分类 (3)3.2.1语音双关 (3)3.2.2语义双关 (4)3.2.3语法双关 (5)3.2.4拟仿双关 (5)3.2.5借代双关 (6)3.3广告英语中的双关语的特点 (7)3.3.3简洁性 (7)3.3.2创新性 (7)3.3.3趣味性 (8)3.3.4美学性 (8)3.4广告英语双关语的作用 (8)3.4.1传递信息 (8)3.4.2吸引注意 (9)3.4.3刺激消费 (9)3.4.4避免社会禁忌 (10)Ⅳ.结语 (10)4.1研究发现 (10)4.2局限性 (11)参考文献 (12)致谢Ⅰ引言广告,作为人们一种特殊的交际的模式,是消费者了解商品的一个重要途径。
Punning and the Translation of Puns in English Advertisements 英语广告中双关语的运用技巧及翻译摘要双关语是英语广告中一种较为常见的修辞手段。
英语广告中的双关语形式多种多样。
双关语的翻译本身就是一个难点;而广告中双关语的翻译则更加复杂,因为除了语意双关之外,还需要考虑到广告本身的风格特点。
本文探讨了一些英语广告中双关语的运用技巧及翻译,从语音双关、语义双关、语法双关和成语、俗语双关等几方面对双关语的运用技巧作了阐述。
并在考虑双关语的双重含义及广告语体风格的基础上,从契合译法、灵活表义法、加注法、直译法和补偿译法等方面对英语广告双关语的翻译作了初步的探讨。
AbstractPunning is one of the most common rhetorical devices used in advertisement. There are various ways to form puns in advertisements. The translation of puns is difficult because of the double meanings, and the translation of puns in advertisements is even more difficult because one must keep both the double meanings of a pun and the style of the advertisement in mind. This paper is about the techniques of punning and the translation of puns in English advertisements. It expresses the technique of pun by the ways of homophonic pun, homographic pun, grammatical pun and idiom pun. And this paper has some preliminary discussions in punning of English advertisement through the methods of conjunct translation, nimble translation, replenishment translation, transliteration, compensate translations.[Key Words] advertising language; pun; translationContents1. Introduction (5)2. The Puns in English Advertisements (5)2.1 Homophonic Pun (5)2.1.1 Close Sound Pun (5)2.1.2 The Same Sound Pun (6)2.2 Homographic Pun (7)2.3 Grammatical Pun (9)2.3.1 Puns Created by Different Collocations (9)2.3.2 Puns Created by Different Understandings of the Same Words (9)2.4 Idiomatic Pun (10)3. Translations of Puns in English Advertisements (11)3.1 The conjunct translation (11)3.2Nimble Translation (12)3.3Replenishment Translation (13)3.4Transliteration (14)3.5Compensative Translations (16)4. Conclusion (17)1. IntroductionWhat is advertising? Advertising is the non-personal communication of information usually paid for and usually persuasive in nature about products, services or idea by identified sponsors through the various media. [1]p4 Whether it is goods advertisement or public service advertisement, the creation of the advertisement is a comprehensive art. The creation of the advertisement involves sociology, aesthetics, psychology, sound of electricity, literature and linguistics etc. The skills needed in this art are more than other forms of writing. It shows the vivid and interesting characters by the principle of salesmanship. And it has special communication to bring the reader''s attention in a moment, stimulates the desire of buying and facilitates the behavior of buying finally. Therefore, the using of precision and appropriate in advertising literary language will make the influence of advertising language far beyond the advertisement itself. The rhetorical of pun is a common skill, in creating advertisement. The pun, in Italian, “puntiglio” means “a fine point,” hence a verbal quibble, and is most likely the source of the English punctilious. A pun is defined by Webster as “the humorous use of a word, or of words which are formed or sounded alike but have different meanings, in such a way as to play on two or more of the possible application; a play on words.”[2] As the game of words, pun will leave a deep impression on readers by its readability, wit, and humor. Therefore it is used in the advertisement with a large amount.2. The Puns in English AdvertisementsThere are many kinds of puns exist in English advertisements. In this paper, four mainly types of them are talked. There are homophonic puns, homographic pun, grammatical pun and idiom pun.2.1 Homophonic PunHomophonic means two or more words are of the similar or same sound.Because “There exist no information channels of bilingual conversion at the sound level” [3] the partial sound puns are always seen in the daily life. It concludes close sound pun and the same sound pun.2.1.1 Close Sound PunClose pun means pairs or more of words having the same sound but different meanings.(1) AN ideal marriage is one in which the wife is a treasure and the husband treasury.理想的婚姻—太太是宝贝,而先生是金库.(2) Nowadays, a pair of dice is made a paradise如今,一副股子就可以成为乐园In the two examples above, both the two advertisements successfully convey the satirical tones of the two English sentences. Nevertheless, neither“宝贝,金库”nor“股子,乐园”reflect the partial tones of “treasure, treasury”and “pair of dice, paradise”. It just put one layer of the double meaning into Chinese and the pun affect disappears without any trail.(3) Centrum with beta-caroteneFrom A to ZincMore Complete [4] P15富含胡萝卜的珍多美,从A到锌,应有尽有,营养更全,口味更新!This is one of food advertis ement named centum. “From A to Zinc” harmonics with the English phrase “From A to the Z”, the latter meaning refers “comprehensively, complete”. The pun here wants to explain this kind of food nutrition rich in prominent, all contains from Vitamin A (namely carrot element) to the zinc element, has the extreme power of persuasion..2.1.2 The Same Sound PunThe same sound pun means the words have the same sound but have different meanings.(4)Have a nice trip, buy-buy![5]祝君旅途愉快,拜拜/快买!“Buy-buy” is a varied spelling, and it unison with “bye-bye”. Airport store says goodbye to the passenger, the purpose is that reminds everybody to buy a present or other thing to bring with just before leaving. “Buy-Buy”! Forms in one''s mind ingeniously, humorous to be humor ous, makes one thump the table and shout praise.(5)Forget hot tasteOnly Kool, with pure menthol has the taste of extra coolnessCome up to Kool.[6]P49忘掉辛辣的感觉,只有“酷”牌,纯正的薄荷口味给你特别清凉的酷酷感觉,想酷你就来!This is one of the cigarette advertisements, in sentence “kool” is a unison pun, it both refer to cigarette and the cool feeling. In order to prominent product out of the ordinary cool characteristic, the advertisement maker fabricats word “kool” to take the cigarette’s name, using the “cool” unison, and the “hot” in first sentence also further strengthened this “cool” meaning, contrasts the Kool sign cigarette by the consumers to the “cool” feeling in the mouth.(6) Foyled again? Try Dillon.[7]又失望了?那就来Dillon书店看看吧。
英语笑话
妙趣横生的双关语
英语中的双关语随处可见,尤其在广告语中的更常见,使广告更加俏皮、幽默、生动形象,从而增强广告的说服力,使产品形象深入人心。
如:
美国有一家眼镜公司的产品牌子是OIC,读作Oh, I see.
这则广告生动地运用了谐音双关,这三个大写字母形状像眼镜,同时,这个广告语又表达了视力不佳的人戴上这个品牌的眼镜后看见清晰的世界的喜悦之情,真是一则富有感染力的广告。
再比如一则海滨浴场的广告语:
More sun and air for your son and your heir .
我们这里有充足的阳光,清新的空气,这对您的儿子——您事业和财产的继承人——大有裨益。
这则广告巧妙地利用sun,son和air,heir这两组同音异义词,使广告读起来朗朗上口,从而吸引。
英文广告双关语的运用与翻译 刘洪泉 (江汉石油学院外语系,湖北荆州434023)[摘要]在商品经济时代,广告起着不可估量的作用,而双关语为广告又增添了不少色彩。
探讨了双关语在广告中的运用和翻译,把双关语按照谐育双关、语义双关、语法双关、成语和欲语双关归类。
介绍了双关语的几种翻译方法,诸如契合译法、分别表义法、套译法、侧重译法、补偿译法,旨在为翻译工作者提供有益的参考。
[关键词]英语;广告;双关语;运用;翻译[中图分类号]H31519[文献标识码]A [文章编号]10090010(2003)增刊013702 广告文案中文学语言运用精当会使得广告语言的内涵与影响远远超出广告本身。
双关语这一修辞手段是广告创作常用的技巧。
双关,顾名思义,就是在特定的语言环境中用一种语言文字形式表达出一明一暗双重意义,既引人注意,又能引起联想。
双关语具有简洁凝练、风趣幽默、新颖别致等修辞效果,能够突出广告的特点,因而在广告中得到大量应用。
一、双关语在广告中的运用 广告中巧用双关能使语言含蓄、幽默、生动,给人以回味和想象的余地。
常用以下几种双关语。
11谐音双关谐音双关是用拼写相似、发音相同或相近的词构成的[1]。
广告制作者非常乐于使用谐音双关,因为此类双关具有风趣、幽默、俏皮、滑稽的语言风格,能增强广告的说服力和感染力,从而给消费者留下深刻的印象。
例1 More sun and air for your son and heir1这里有充足的阳光,清新的空气,一切为了您的子孙后代。
制作者巧妙地运用了sun2son,air2heir这两对谐音字,使广告语言不仅和谐悦耳,读来朗朗上口,而且颇风趣、幽默,具有感召力。
例2 Trust us1Over5000ears of experience1相信我们吧。
历经5000多只耳朵的检验,有着5000多年的经验。
这是一则助听器推销广告。
从字面看,它说明了该产品已经接受了众多消费者的考验,但字里行间巧妙地嵌入一对谐音字ears2years,充分暗示了该产品悠久的历史和久经考验的上乘质量。
英语广告中双关语侧重译法举例英语广告中双关语侧重译法举例【篇一:英语广告中双关语侧重译法举例】侧重译法和补偿译法等几种翻译方法对英语广告双关语作了些探讨。
关键词:广告英语;双关语;翻译abstractas an applied language,advertising english has its own linguistic style and features. its language is original and beautiful and full of connotations. its sentence structure is succinct. advertisements,giving the charm of language full play,use the simplest language to express the most complex meanings. the purpose of advertisements is to stimulate people’s desire for shopping. therefore,manufacturers try their best to use puns to create new meanings. the skillful use of puns makes advertising language vivid and humorous .many kinds of rhetorical devices are used in advertisements. and punning is one of the most frequently used ways in advertising language to help to achieve desired effects of advertisements. this paper explores punning and the translation of puns in english advertisements. it deals with various ways to form puns,and the techniques of translating puns in advertisements.key words: advertising english; pun; translation随着国际分工的深化、发展和全球经济一体化的趋势日益加强,国际间的商品流通日益频繁,各个国家为了争夺世界市场,竞相推销本国产品。
Abstract:Nowadays,advertisementshavebecomeanindispensiblepartofourlifethatitcomestoourviewalmostomnipresent.Itsinfluencesareintangible.Itisanartofconcentrated,integrated.Inordertomakefulluseoftheadvertisement,rhetoricaldeviceshavebeenputintouse,especiallythepuns.Therearemainlyfourformsofpuns:homophonicpuns,homographicpuns,grammaticalpuns,andparodypuns.Thepunshavetheirowndistinctivefunctionsothattheyaresignificantinmakingadvertisement.Thisarticlefocusesonthepuninadvertisingandthefunctionoftheuseofpunstogivesomeanalysis.Keywords:advertisement,puns,form,functionIntroductionThepurposeofadvertisingistoattracttheaimedcustomers.Agreatimpressionshouldbegivenbytheuniqueadoptionofwordsandsuccinctandcontent-richsyntaxoftheadvertisements.AsforEnglishadvertisement,itshouldhavetheeffectofinducingthecustomer’simagination,arisingthedesireofpurchaseandcatchingeyes.Asuccessfuladvertisingnotonlyjustshockpeoplewithvisual,auditoryeffects,butalsopassedbypeoplebecauseoftheconciseness.Amonganumberofrhetoricaldevices,ofwhichthemostpopular,isthepun.IntheWebster’sThirdNewInternationalDictionary,itdefinesthepuninsuchway:thehumoroususeofawordinsuchawayastosuggestdifferentmeaningsorapplicationsofwordshavingthesameornearlythesamesoundbutdifferentmeanings;aplayonwords.(Yan,2008)所谓“双关”,《现代汉语词典》(1993)的解释是“用词造句时表面上是一个意思,而暗中隐藏着另一个意思”。Pun,alsoknownasparonomasiaorplayonwords,comesfromLatinwordsParonomazeinwhichmeanscallbyadifferentname.Ithastwobasiccharacteristics:ambiguousdualcontext.Itstechnicaluseofphenomenoninlanguagesuchashomonym,ambiguity,vaguenessmakesaword,phraseorsentenceexpresstwomeaningstocreateasenseofhumor,irony,orconveytheideaintheconditionedcontext.
1.FiguresofspeechinEnglishadvertisementsIntheadvertisinglanguage,peoplepaymoreandmoreattentiontotheuseofrhetoricmeansbyusingtherefining,accurateandvividlanguage.Usingoftherhetoricmeansisnotonlybenefitstostimulateconsumerspendingbutalsotoimprovethequalitiesoftheadvertisementsandattractivenessoftheproducts.TherearevaryingkindsofrhetoricmeansappliedinEnglishadvertisements.Pun,simile,rhyming,Parallelism,Rhetoricalquestion,Repetition,andContrastarethecommonestfiguresofspeechusedinEnglishadvertisements.
1.1PunsPunisthewidestuseofrhetoricmeansinEnglishadvertisements.Punisahumorsuseofawordthathastwomeansordifferentwordthatsoundsthesame.Apunisarhetoricaldeviceinwhichpeopleusethepolysemousorhomonymousrelationofalanguagetocauseaword,asentenceofadiscoursetoinvolvetwothingsofmeanings.Thereareseveraltypesofpun,suchaspunonpolysemy,punonhomonymy,punonparody,punongrammar,punonillustrationsandwords.Taketheadvertisement“Theoffspringofspring”asanexample.(皮瑞尔矿泉水广告).Thewordspringisveryimportanttotheadvertisementbecauseitstandsforthespring(春天)aswellasthespring(泉水).Besidesthewordsoffspringwhichgiveustheimpressionofthenextgenerationisasymbolofcleanandsustainable.Sotheadvertisementleavesusadeepimpressionoftheproductwhichisclean,pure,andlikestheseasonofspringfullofenergy.Wecannothelptobuyingthegoods.1.2SimilesSimileisusedmostincommercialadvertisementwhichmakesacomparisonbetweenadullelementandavividobjectatleastonequalityorcharacteristicincommon.Simileisalwaysintroducedbywordslike,as,as…as,asif,etc.Usingofsimilewillgivetheconsumeraobviousandvividimage.Justliketheadvertisementofcomputer---Acomputerthatunderstandsyouislikeyourmother.Itcomparestheunderstandingofcomputertomanastheunderstandingofmothertoherchild.Thesimilegivesavividdescriptiontothecomputer.
1.3ParallelismParallelismisoneofthemostusefulandflexiblerhetoricaltechniques.Itreferstoanystructurewhichbringstogetherparallelelements,bethesenouns,adjectives,verbs,adverbs,orlargerstructures.Donewell,parallelismimpartsgraceandpowertopassage.Justlookatanadvertisementofakindofanalgesic----It'sabigheadachemedicine.Nothingyoucanbuyisstronger.Nothingyoucanbuyworksharder.Nothinggivesyoubigrelief.(镇痛药片,Bristol-Myers.Co).Itiseasyforconsumertorememberandthestructureistidy.Wecangetmuchinformationintheadvertisement.TheabovearesomesimpleexampleoffiguresofspeechusedinEnglishadvertisement.TherearestillmanyrhetoricmeansappliedinEnglishadvertisement.WhatismoreimportantisthatthepunisusedthemostinEnglishadvertisement.SointhispaperwilltalkabouttheapplicationofpuninEnglishadvertisements.
2.ThetypesofpunsintheEnglishadvertisements
2.1HomophonicpunsHomophonicpunsmeanthatthesamewordorthesimilarwordsinspellingorpronunciationmakepuns.Thiskindofpunsishumorousandmakestheadvertisementattractiveandeasytoremember.Forexample:Weknoweggsactlywhatyouwant.Whatcouldbedelisherthanfisher?Itisaneggadvertisementwhichmakes“exactly”intothenewword“eggsactly”.Althoughtheworddoesn’texist,wecancatchthemeaning.Thewordistransformedinspellingandmakespeopleimpressed.Atthesametime,theadvertisementhasconveyedtheideathatthecustomersseekforthebestqualityandinexpensivegoods,andtheirproductiswhattheywant.Twowordsarecombinedintooneandmaketheadvertisementperfect.Asforthesecondexample,“delisher”Createdfrom“delicious”and“fisher”.Italsohascodaforgoodreading.DrinkaPintaMilkaDay.Anadvertisementformilkshowstherhythm.Aisaddedafterthewordjustforthelast