Language, Individual & Society, Volume 19, 2025

Rezumat: Metaphors, traditionally regarded as stylistic embellishments, are recognized as fundamental to our conceptual frameworks, making their translation a complex task that often requires both linguistic knowledge and creative intuition. The paper analyzes 23 speeches by the Lithuanian presidents Gitanas Nausėda and Dalia Grybauskaitė, comprising a total of over 9,700 words. A set of 57 metaphors is selected, categorized into simple and complex types, and analyzed using Newmark’s metaphor translation strategies. The findings reveal that the most frequently used strategy is reproducing the same image in the target language, applied to 18 out of 22 simple metaphors and 26 out of 35 complex metaphors. This suggests that metaphors in presidential speeches are often creative or intercultural, requiring careful preservation in translation. Other strategies, such as replacing a metaphor with standard target language images and conversion to sense, are used less frequently. No examples of translation by simile, deletion, or combination with sense are found.