The Cognitive Status of a Figurative and Poetically Transformed Metaphor
The Cognitive Status of a Figurative and Poetically Transformed Metaphor

Summary/Abstract: The relevance of the presented topic is based on a growing interest for the study of metaphors in different discourses. During the review, special emphasis was placed on the problem of metaphor typology. The identification of the frame the structural features of the metaphor, as well as the cognitive mechanisms of its poetic transformation, depends on the compilation of this typology. These factors must be taken into account in the process of translation as the reproduction of a metaphor by means of another one, in a different conceptual sphere and a different language.

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