APPROACHES TO THE TRANSLATION OF AUTHORS’ VOCABULARY IN A LITERARY TEXT WITH REFERENCE TO WILLIAM GIBSON’S NOVEL “NEUROMANCER”

Abstract

The article deals with a problem of translation of authors’ neologisms in texts of science fiction of the cyberpunk genre. The researcher presents an analysis of existing approaches to the definition of author’s word creation, systematizes approaches to the translation of neologisms as a private phenomenon without equivalent vocabulary. The research material consists of 80 neologisms from the novel “Neuromancer” by W. Gibson, and its translations performed by M. Pchelintsev, A. Nikitin, O. Kolesnikov and B. Kadnikov. As a result of a comparative analysis of the types of word formation of the author’s neologisms, we have identified three groups—one-part neologisms, two-part neologisms and complex phrases. Functions of the author’s neologisms are nominative and attractive. A special semantic function consists in artistic expressiveness and emotional saturation. Further analysis of translation techniques in the frequency aspect shows that calculus is used most often, transliteration and lexical additions are used in a limited amount, translators use concretization techniques the least often.