HANDLING THE EMOTIVE INFORMATION WHEN TRANSLATING NON-FICTION FROM ENGLISH INTO RUSSIAN: THE CASE OF INTO THE WILD BY JON KRAKAUER

Abstract

The objective of the study is to find the influence of genre and style features of documentary fiction on the choice of translation strategy: the research material is Into the Wild by J. Krakauer’s and its translation into Russian by D. Kulikov. The key to determine the strategy is understanding of documentary fiction as a hybrid genre that combines the documentary, represented by cognitive information, and fiction, represented by emotional and aesthetic information. On the basis of the receptive method, complex application of methods of comparative and contextual analysis and the theory of distribution of different types of information in the text (I. Alekseeva), the article analyzes the ways of transmitting emotional information represented by the speech of characters, diminutives and phraseological units. The scientific novelty is that for the first time a comparative analysis of emotional information is carried out in the original and in the translation of a documentary fiction. As a result, it is revealed that the translation strategy to overestimate the level of emotionality of the translation is unsuccessful, as it interferes with the perception of the documentary of the work and distorts the style. It seems promising to study different types of information in documentary fiction and to determine translation strategies when working with them.