The Imagery of Francisco García Lorca in Translation: a Cognitive Analysis

Abstract

This article aims to present some tools of cognitive linguistics (Langacker, 1987) introduced in translation studies by Tabakowska (1993) as instruments for the literary analysis. Lorca’s imagery poses a particular challenge for translators. For this reason, its elements—the perspective, the
prominent elements of the visualized scene, the plasticity of the image achieved by using a certain expression or grammatical structure—seem to be an excellent testing-ground for cognitive analysis and proof of its great utility in the first stage of the translation process.