PUSHKIN’S ARION IN ENGLISH: CONCERNING THE PROBLEM OF TRANSLATION ADEQUASY
He article focuses on ten translations of Alexander Pushkin’s poem Arion into English from the point of view of the translation adequacy. The translations in question were made from 1930 to 2016. They are analyzed from the point of view of form and content. The texts in question were created both by...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
2017-12-01
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| Series: | RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.rudn.ru/semiotics-semantics/article/view/17958 |
| Summary: | He article focuses on ten translations of Alexander Pushkin’s poem Arion into English from the point of view of the translation adequacy. The translations in question were made from 1930 to 2016. They are analyzed from the point of view of form and content. The texts in question were created both by the Russian-speaking and English-speaking translators. Most translators strive to preserve the meter, rhyme and number of lines of the source poem. In the XXIth century there is a growing tendency towards conveying the content of the poem at the expense of its original form, the translators using the artistic means, traditional for their own culture, f.eg. alliteration. Conveying the poem’s ideas constitutes a problem because of the lexical gaps between the two languages. Translators quite often choose a wrong contextual meaning. Word usage mistakes lead sometimes to comic effect. |
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| ISSN: | 2313-2299 2411-1236 |