RENDERING OF CONTAMINATED SPEECH IN LITERARY PROSE TRANSLATION

Abstract

Inadequate rendering of contaminated speech in translation of fiction resulting in its distortion is analyzed. Excerpts borrowed from an American novel and its published translation into Russian are compared on the basis of their pragmatic, stylistic and phonetic conformity. Besides merely linguistic parameters of translation, its extra linguistic as well as local cultural ones are also considered – rendering of foreign and dialectal accents knowingly or automatically distorted speech of protagonists, national features of cultural phenomena typical of the source-language country. The classification of the analyzed contaminated units is based on their pragmatic common character and the factors causing them. The accompanying detailed explanatory commentaries on some aversive discrepancies between the original and translation include adequate correspondences suggested by the authors confirming their thesis that such a rendering is quite attainable in principle.