Synaesthetic metaphor and its reproduction in Russian-to-English translation: a frame-based study

Abstract

The paper offers speculations and inferences about linguistic synaesthesia and the synaesthetic metaphor. The combination of several methods developed by different theories was first applied for the study of the synaesthetic metaphor. Such an approach allowed to elicit eight major translation strategies ranging from full or partial reproduction of the intended synaesthesia to a full loss of any synaesthetic effect when the original synaesthetic metaphors were translated into hypallages, comparisons and non-metaphors