TRANSLATION TRANSFORMATIONS AS A MEANS OF TRANSMITTING VARIOUS LINGUISTIC PHENOMENA (BASED ON THE TRANSLATIONS OF CH. DICKENS’ NOVELS)

Abstract

The article is dedicated to a comparative analysis of translation transformations in the translations of Ch. Dickens’ novel “Great Expectations”. The study is based on the original text and on two translations by M. Shishmareva and M. Lorie. It is shown that creative and professional activities, as well as the period of time in which translations were carried out, greatly influenced the work of the translators. The analysis of the translation strategies suggests that M. Lorie was able to achieve a greater degree of adequacy and equivalence. Comparison of the translation by M. Shishmareva released in 1909 and is a translation of this work, and the translation by M. Lorie, published in 1942 and nowadays ensures the novelty of the scientific approach to comparative translation analysis, since the time the translation was made and extralinguistic factors affecting its quality are taken into account. The article highlights the problems that arose during the translation and analyzes methods for solving them. Turning to works containing a comparative analysis of the translation of literary works shows that the authors focus on the typological characteristics of texts, which determines the choice of translation strategies.