Tradução de metáforas verbo-pictóricas para páginas web do smartphone Huawei P40 Pro à luz da teoria de necessidades

In the era of global digital marketing, multinational companies adopt metaphors as an innovative advertising strategy on their websites to attract more consumers and stimulate their buying needs. This paper, based on the conceptual metaphor theory proposed by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) and expanded b...

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Authors: Sun, Yuqi, Ye, Zi
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2023
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
Repository:Cadernos de Tradução (Florianópolis. Online)
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.ufsc.br:article/97183
Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/traducao/article/view/97183
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Tradução
metáfora conceitual
metáfora verbo-pictórica
teoria das necessidades
publicidades de páginas web
Translation
Conceptual metaphor
Verb-pictorial metaphor
Needs theory
Webpage advertisements
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Summary:In the era of global digital marketing, multinational companies adopt metaphors as an innovative advertising strategy on their websites to attract more consumers and stimulate their buying needs. This paper, based on the conceptual metaphor theory proposed by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) and expanded by Forceville (1996, 2009), along with Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory (1954, 1970), analyzes the verb-pictorial metaphors in advertisements on the Huawei P40 Pro smartphone website and their translations into Brazilian Portuguese. With the aim of examining how the metaphors conceptualize the product's features in both versions, and based on the analyzed metaphors, we also explore the different intentions of the Chinese advertiser and the Brazilian translator in stimulating the purchasing needs of the Chinese and Brazilian target audiences. The findings reveal that the original Chinese advertising leans towards evoking the needs for love and belonging among Chinese consumers, while the Portuguese translation tends to fulfill the esteem needs of Brazilian consumers.