TY - JOUR N2 - The onymic image of the world in a translation through an intermediary language as exemplified by the anthroponyms in a collection of short stories “Baummoos pflücken” (lit. “The Lichen Collector”) by Zhang Wei. The article addresses the issue of the linguistic image of the world — reflected in proper names — and of its translation. Chinese onyms and their related forms of address contain information about mutual relations between the speaker and the named object, thus offering a better insight into social relations in small language and cultural communities. The challenge for the translator is not only to translate these onyms, but also to preserve their social function in the text. This has been exemplified in the article by a translation of a collection of short stories from Chinese to Polish through German, where the intermediary language adds another coherence layer. The theory of the linguistic image of the world and proper names per se are a starting point for a critical analysis of this specific translation in view of the translation of onyms and of their potential for conveying the image of the world. Emphasis is placed on the transfer of the social functions of onyms into the target language. The influence of onyms and of their consistent treatment in the translation on the coherence of the studied text has also been taken into account. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/119126/PDF-MASTER/Onomastica%2064%20strony%20193-209%20Grotek.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/119126 PY - 2020 EP - 209 KW - anthroponomastics KW - cultural linguistics KW - Chinese anthroponyms KW - linguistic image of the world KW - onymic image of the world A1 - Grotek, Edyta PB - Komitet Językoznawstwa PAN PB - Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN VL - No 64 DA - 2021.01.18 T1 - An onymic image of the world in translation via a third language on the example of anthroponyms in the collection of stories „Baummoos pflücken” (lit. “The Lichen Collector”) by Zhang Wei SP - 193 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/119126 T2 - Onomastica ER -