SEMANTIC AND STYLISTIC DEVIATIONS FROM THE ORIGINAL AND ADEQUACY OF TRANSLATION

Abstract

Inadequate rendering of lexical, semantic, and stylistic aspects of the original text resulting in its distortion in the translation is analyzed. Examples borrowed from an English fiction and its published translation into Russian are juxtaposed on the basis of their defined semantic and stylistic conformity. Besides purely linguistic aspects of translation, its extra linguistic as well as local regional characteristics are also considered; among the main of them – rendering of realities’ designation, appropriateness of usage of typical national peculiarities designating phenomena exclusively inherent in the culture of the original language country. The classification of the regarded distortions is based on their linguistic and extra linguistic common features as well as the factors causing them. The accompanying commentaries explaining some not self-evident, at first sight, examples include suggested versions of the adequate translation illustrating the authors’ thesis of its possibility in principle.