Sum Wong

List of John Benjamins publications in which Sum Wong is involved.

Articles

Wong, Sum 2026 Agency in metaphor and translation: A socio-cognitive approach to deliberate metaphor use in intercultural communication Metaphor and the Social World: Online-First Articles | Article

Cognitive approaches to metaphor translation, particularly those rooted in Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), can be seen as overlooking the translator’s agency as they tend to emphasise the conceptual structures of metaphor in thought. As a result, very little is known about the role… read more

Wong, Sum 2024 Deliberate metaphor (use) in translation and interpreting: Is there such a thing? Metaphor and the Social World 14:2, pp. 322–328 | Miscellaneous

This article responds to the latest theoretical and empirical developments in Deliberate Metaphor Theory (DMT) and explores the extension of deliberate metaphor and its use in translation and interpreting. Grounded on a comprehension-based and a production-based perspective of Deliberate… read more

Wong, Sum 2024 Review of van Crevel & Klein (2019): Chinese Poetry and Translation: Rights and Wrongs Babel 70:4, pp. 586–589 | Review