THE LIMITS OF LINGUOCULTURAL “FOREIGNNESS” TRANSFER IN THE TRANSLATION OF V. PELEVIN’S NOVEL “EMPIRE V” INTO GERMAN

Abstract

The article highlights a problem of conveying the “otherness” of the original text in translation in view of the special creative intent of the writer and the linguistic and cultural features of languages belonging to different language families. “Foreignness” of the text is determined by its written form and temporal distance. The objective of the study is to identify the linguistic forms of representation of “foreignness” in the artistic discourse and analyse the ways of its transmission from Russian into German in accordance with V.N. Komissarov’s hierarchical model of equivalence. It is found that the alteration of the literary text is manifested in such properties of the narrative as intertextuality, multiculturalism and foreign language inclusions. Three scenarios of verbalization of “foreignness” in the target text are described, and linguistic identifying markers are presented. The author comes to the conclusion that it is possible to transfer the “foreignness” at the lexico-semantic level, at the level of utterance, at the level of structure and at the level of communicative situation.