SPECIFIC FEATURES OF TRANSLATION OF COLLOQUIALISMS OF L.A. FILATOV’S FAIRY TALE IN VERSE “THE TALE OF SOLDIER FEDOT, THE DARING FELLOW” INTO ENGLISH

Abstract

The article considers the translation of colloquialisms as a tool for conveying the social and national specificity, imagery and color of a literary work, as well as the author’s style. The research presents the colloquial vocabulary of the play (fairy tale in verse) by L.A. Filatov “The Tale of Soldier Fedot, the Daring Fellow”, which is classified by its composition and divided into phonetic, word-formation, morphological, semantic and formal-semantic types. The work presents the productive translation techniques used in the English verse by A.S. Vagapov, among which the leading ones are stylistic neutralization, omission, semantic development, the use of functional analogues, addition, generalization and specialization. The study is based on the methods of continuous sampling, random sampling, the descriptive method and the methods of comparative and contextual analysis. The article concludes that when translating the fairy tale “About Fedot the Strelets, the Daring Fellow” into English, the translator managed to partially convey the humor inherent in the original. Nevertheless, the national flavor (and hence the brightness of the images and the fairy-tale vividness), which is largely conveyed due to phonetic, word-formation, morphological and semantic colloquialisms, was lost.