CONCEPTUAL METAPHOR AS A COGNITIVE TOOL FOR ADEQUATE TRANSLATION OF METAPHORICAL TEXT

The major concern of the research is working out an integrated cognitive model of textual fragments of Charles Dickens’s novel “The Pickwick Papers” (Dickens, 2000) embodying metaphorical expressions of Love, and elaborating strategies and tactics of the translation of metaphorical text, which would adequately convey the original message into the target text.

It is claimed that such a model envisages two stages of metaphorical text processing: image-space exploration and text world navigation since a metaphorical image and a cognitive structure underlying it have two planes: conceptual and verbal.

It is assumed that verbal metaphoric images constitute the dominant of a metaphorical text message and that the text formation as well as the function of textual elements is regulated by some cognitive mechanisms.

To achieve the goals methods of semantic, conceptual, cognitive and text-interpreting analysis as well as lingua-stylistic analysis of tropes and figures of speech have been used.

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It is hypothesized that a metaphorical text represents a poetic metaphoric image space that can be regarded as a medium underlying verbalized images expressed by means of stylistic devices on the basis of cognitive operations and mechanisms of metaphorical reasoning which are to be revealed in the source text, explored and reconstructed in the target text.

The cognitive analysis of Ch. Dickens’s conceptual understanding of Love in “The Pickwick Papers” (Dickens, 2000), the revealed spectrum of conceptual Love-metaphors and the results of the comparative analysis of conceptual schemas of Love-concept in the original and the translated version of it illustrated by a number of cognitive models developed in the process of the research appear to be a new word in literary studies on Charles Dickens’s conceptual world view. Keywords: metaphorical text, conceptual metaphor, cognitive approach, image space exploration, source text, target text