VIRTUAL COMMUNICATION THROUGH THE PRISM OF A LITERARY TEXT: POSSIBLE TRANSLATION SOLUTIONS

Abstract

The article is dedicated to a problem of translating virtual communication included in the structure of a literary text. An e-mail novel is a modern literary genre originated only a few years ago and is still in the process of formation. From the point of view of the text composition, the novel consists either entirely of private or official emails, or electronic correspondence is only included in the text of the narrative. In a literary text such virtual communication acquires additional communicative meanings and requires specific translation solutions. The article analyzes some possible methods of translating electronic correspondence in a literary text caused by the cultural and linguistic differences. Special attention is paid to the comparative analysis of the translation of youth slang with a clearly expressed familiar coloring. The relative mobility, ambiguity, expressiveness and emotionality of slang units leads to different perception of the stylistic code in the source and target languages.