TY - JOUR
TI - Alfa i Omega
AU - Pawelec, Andrzej
TI - Alfa i Omega
AB - 
	Traffi c Problems on the Bridge: Translation Studies, Cognitive Linguistics and Literary Criticism
	In her monograph entitled A Cognitive Approach to Equivalence in Literary Translation.
	Illustrated by an Analysis of Images of Women in Henry James’s Portrait of a Lady and Its
	Polish Translation Portret damy, Monika Linke claims that the discipline of translation
	studies can be selected to become a bridge between linguistic and literary theories
	of translation. Moreover, linguists and literary scholars can profi t from translation
	studies as well. Such a claim that emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of research is
	admirable; as is the claim that cognitive linguistics should be recommended to tackle
	the problems and challenges of translation criticism. However, no interdisciplinary
	approach should constitute an excuse for shortages in the knowledge of contributing
	disciplines. Unfortunately, Linke’s presentation of the two theories of cognitive
	linguistics: Lakoff’s metaphor theory and Langacker’s theory of grammar, abounds
	in misunderstandings and mistakes. Moreover, the theoretical part does not prove
	very useful in the monograph’s second part, which offers ten case studies focusing
	on selected linguistic aspects of the passages chosen from Henry James’s Portrait of
	a Lady and its Polish version. Linke’s ambitious aim to “facilitate the application of
	cognitive linguistics to translation studies” has not been achieved.
VL - 2009
IS - Issue 22-23 – Baśń w przekładzie
PY - 2011
SN - 1425-6851
C1 - 1689-1864
SP - 360
EP - 370
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przekladaniec/article/alfa-i-omega