The book offers a view of literary text translation as a reconstruction of the non-standard linguistic worldview embedded in that text, and emerging from the standard, conventional worldview in a given language and culture. Using a metaphor of two icebergs, this thesis is by analyses of English translations of two poems by Wisława Szymborska.
Agnieszka Gicala is a translation teacher at the Pedagogical University of Krakow, Poland, and a freelance translator. Her academic interests center around linguistic worldviews, ethnolinguistics, cognitive theories of metaphor and blending, and their application in translation, literary translation, and the language of religion.