Assessment of Poetry Translation through Mental Modules of Readers

The observation of poetry translation is an interdisciplinary field, comprising the translation- linguistic aspects of poetic language and one or more supplementary methods which enable critical assessment. This necessitates the involvement of supplementary disciplines, for example, reader response and its amalgamation with cognitive linguistics. Chapter 1 provides a short historical review of text research, translation theory and cognitive linguistics, highlighting the common points where possible. Chapter 2 outlines the practical implementation of the research. Chapter 3 outlines the common points of information processing (as assumed in mental conceptual units) and readers interpretations. Chapter 4 provides an outline of poetry translation with the cognitive approach to it. Chapter 5 discusses the results of reception as measured through conceptualisation on the global level of the whole poem. Chapter 6 is devoted to the observation of data as gained by conceptualisation on local (stanzas, diction) level. Chapter 7 contains the model of poetry translation criticism, which is based on 9 categories.