ACTUALIZATION OF THE AUTHOR’S COGNITIVE STRATEGY IN THE ORIGINAL LITERARY TEXT AND IN ITS TRANSLATION

Abstract

The article investigates a problem of actualization of an author’s cognitive strategy in a literary text and the specificity of its representation in translation. Recreation of an author’s cognitive strategy in translation is one of the major points, insuring the integrity of a literary text translation. It may manifest itself in different linguistic codes, the linguistic units which become “point attractors” of the meanings. The author’s cognitive codes may also be incorporated in markers of the indefiniteness category, evaluative affixes and in patterns of the author’s writing technique. The study of these elements of the literary text from cognitive perspective allows the translator to get a better understanding of important linguistic codes of the original text and convey in translation the psychological characteristics of the heroes, the authors’ reaction to the plot conflicts, and reveal the specificity of the text from linguocultural point of view. The analysis of representation of the linguistic units reflecting the cognitive strategy of the author in the original literary text and in its translation is carried out on the basis of A. Chekhov’s short stories and their English translations performed by C. Garnett and R. Payne.