MODELS OF TIME IN M. ENDE’S “MOMO” AND ITS TRANSLATIONS INTO ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN

Abstract

The article focuses on translation issues considering translation as a transfer of text sense from source culture into target culture. The novel of M. Ende “Momo” and its translations into the English and Russian languages have become the research data. The linguistic persona of M. Ende is presented in the concept of “time” and its linear and non-linear models. “Time” is considered to be a key concept in the cognitive map of any language. The non-linear model of time was studied specifically as a characteristic feature of individual writer`s style presented in literary imageries as a synergy of physical, physiological and psychological characteristics of the concept “time”. The authors apply the method of linguistic and cognitive analysis to the data. They come to the conclusion that dominant subconcepts and its constituents in the model are preserved in the target texts, characterizing the linguistic persona of both the writer and translators. The structural and meaningful adequacy of source and target texts proves the appropriateness of the writer’s and translators` spheres of concepts in the translation space.