THE EXPERIENCE OF TEXT-BASED RESEARCH OF STANZAS BASED ON THE MATERIAL OF THE ORIGINAL POETIC TEXT “A MADAME DU CHATELET” BY VOLTAIRE AND THE TEXT OF THE TRANSLATION OF “MADAME CHATELET” BY A.S. PUSHKIN

Abstract

The article presents the results of a text-based analysis of a text collection consisting of Voltaire’s original poetic text in small verse form (stanzas) in French and its translation into Russian by A.S. Pushkin. The paper describes the main mechanisms of text generation, both of a derivational and non-derivational nature. The mechanisms of text generation are studied at the deep semantic levels of the text, which include the levels of concepts, propositions and thematic-rhematic articulation, as well as the formal semantic level, which includes the lexico-grammatical and syntactic levels of the text. The main derivational processes identified in the text set under study include folding and unfolding, while non-derivational processes include lexico-grammatical and syntactic transformations. The results of the study confirmed the interrelation of changes at the level of deep semantic and formal semantic structures of the text, and also revealed the peculiarities of A.S. Pushkin’s translation style in the context of textual derivatology.