SYNTACTIC TRANSFORMATIONS AS A WAY OF COMPREHENDING A MODERN LITERARY TEXT IN THE PROCESS OF TRANSLATION (A CASE STUDY OF “TROUBLED BLOOD” BY ROBERT GALBRAITH AND ITS RUSSIAN TRANSLATION)

Abstract

The article deals with the study of implementation of syntactic transformations which take place during the translation of the English literary text into the Russian language. Various classifications of syntactic transformations put forward by a number of linguists are provided. This article focuses on the following transformations found in the Russian translation of the detective story “Troubled Blood” by Robert Galbraith into Russian: substitutions, transpositions, additions, omissions. The author gives examples of the above-mentioned transformations closely examining the nature of syntactic relations in the identified types of structures and offering probable explanations for the translator’s choice of a specific transformation in order to convey the semantics of the original version. The article is of interest not only from the point of view of linguistics in general but also in terms of translation studies.