Kognitivno-lingvistički pristup prevođenju metafore s engleskog na hrvatski jezik

The main objective of the thesis was to apply the Conceptual Metaphor Theory to a research on metaphor translation. A comparative analysis of three target texts of the same source text was carried out. The corpus consists of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and three different Croatian translations, done by three different translators in three different time periods (1920, 1953, and 1987). ST metaphoric expressions were identified and copied into a database, where they were aligned with the corresponding TT1, TT2, and TT3 translation solutions. The translation solutions were classified according to a new typology, which combines CMT with the existing typologies in TS. In order to account for the motivation for the different translational solutions, as well as for the effects of using particular procedures, the identified metaphorical expressions and the translational solutions were analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively, taking into account different parameters, such as universality and conventionality of metaphor among others. The proposed typology of metaphor translation procedures was found to be adequate and sufficient for a complete description of the procedures. In the analysis of the corpus the total of 10 translation procedures were identified, which are contained in 4 major categories. The motivation for using a particular translation procedure is very complex, consisting of a number of objective and subjective reasons. The universality of metaphor proved to be a relevant factor for the choice of translation procedure. Different procedures are used to produce different effects, such as making the text more expressive or less expressive, making elements of meaning explicit or implicit etc. Most of the metaphors were preserved (77% same domain, 5% different domain), while some of the metaphors were paraphrased (17%). Deletion was, on average, very uncommon (