TRANSLATING SALMAN RUSHDIE. A COGNITIVE LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE
TRANSLATING SALMAN RUSHDIE. A COGNITIVE LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE

Summary/Abstract: The process of translation has always been dynamic and challenging, as well as the process of investigating metaphor. And when the two are analysed together, the challenge is even greater and the result is metaphor translation, an issue tackled by both traditional linguistic approaches and recently, by cognitive approaches. The main difference between them is that the traditional view sees metaphor as an exceptional employment of language while the cognitive one considers it a conceptual mechanism of reasoning. When it comes to translation,the research has experienced a still increasing interest for metaphor translation from a cognitive point of view in the last 20 years, the turn in Translation Studies leading towards a Cognitive Translation Theory. Within this context, this paper aims at elaborating a cross-linguistic analysis from a Cognitive linguistic perspective, focusing on metaphors and metonymies utilized by Salman Rushdie in his novels The Ground Beneath Her Feet and Two years, eight months and twenty-eight nights. The translations to analyse are Pământul de sub tălpile ei, accomplished by Antoaneta Ralian and published in 2011 and Doi ani, opt luni si douăzeci șiopt de nopți, accomplished by Dana Crăciun and published in 2015.

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