Translation strategy of metaphor in the light of cognitive linguistics

The article consists of two parts connected with each other logically. In the first one the author presents the basics of the cognitive theory of metaphor by Lakoff and Johnson. Whereas in the second, basing on the theses above, she perfoms an analysis of translation strategies of metaphor on the basis of the contemporary Italian prose (Baricco, Ammaniti). The translation processes described include such phenomena as: word for word translation, demethaphoring, cancellation of metaphor and literary translation