No 5(886) (2024)

The paper examines the role of the translator’s individual style in translating free indirect speech from English into Russian. Three translations of J. Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man have been examined to define the parameters of individual variations. The findings suggest that major differences in translating free indirect speech lie in the way translators deal with expressive markers and introduce free indirect speech where there are no corresponding structures in the English original.

The search for an ideal language is not only a global problem of the world order, but also a hard communicative problem of any translator in artistic or informative translation. The text of a work is an interpretation of thought and experience. Translation is an interpretation of the interpreted. The translator have to select the signs and their meanings from the objects which the author had in mind. The aim of the article is to demonstrate that U. Eco’s ideas can be the instruments for a translator.

The article represents a study of the degrees of imagery of metaphors in political discourse (based on V. V. Putin’s public speeches). The author considers three degrees of imagery of metaphors according to the frequency of their objectification in discourse and the strength of the figurative component. According to the results of the study, the conclusions were made that the most frequently represented group is the usual metaphors, the occasional metaphors are distinguished as the strongest in accordance with the figurative component in political discourse.

The article looks at the cases of vagueness in legal texts. Vagueness itself as an integral part of any language can be traced at its different levels including lexical, grammar and other ones. It is generally recommended to avoid cases of vagueness in legal texts for the sake of their transparency and uniformity in further interpretation and understanding as context will not be of any help to lift the problem of misunderstanding.

The article reviews the main accomplishments of the linguistic theory of translation and argues in favour of its relevance to present-day translation science, which is confirmed by translation practice. The author of the article analyses criticism against the linguistic theory of translation from the proponents of the interpretive theory of D. Seleskovitch and M. Lederer, and comments on its credibility.

The article examines scientific papers on the interaction of genres, produced in the first quarter of the 21st century and based on one or a number of texts by one author. The approaches to the formation of the scientific object, reflected in the scientific terminology used, are pointed out; similarities and differences between them are revealed. It is concluded that the researchers exhibit cardinally different approaches to the phenomenon.

This article deals with the problem of research of linguistic units involved in the creation of the image of the country in a literary text. The following methods were used to achieve this aim: analysis and synthesis, method of logical comparison, typological method, methods of observation and description. The main part of this research is a review of the material, which is devoted to the images of other countries. As a result of the study, it was revealed that the image of the country in the scientific literature has a broad representation. The linguistic means that create the image of the country include non-equivalent, connotative and background vocabulary, proper names and emotionally evaluative words.

The paper reveals the potential of the diachronic approach to paratext in translation. Both translators’ prefaces, one dating back to the 18th century and the other of the 21st century, demonstrate similarity in structure, concepts, functions and discourse parameters. At the same time, they differ significantly in their cultural and psychological characteristics, which show the values and the linguistic portrait of the translator at each particular stage in history.

The paper dills with characteristics of one of the groups of public speech genres – informational texts – on the material of the German language: the emphasis on the reported information, the predominance of content over form, the importance of the speaker's individual style. The author shows how the above-mentioned parameters of informational texts determine the specifics of the interpreter's preparation to work with such texts.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the phenomenon of musical ekphrasis in W. Shakespeare’s sonnets, namely to one of the most vivid aspects –the depiction of “music and songs”. The “music and songs” group has been distinguished by the author through taking the system-oriented approach and comparative analysis. As for the theoretical basis for the problem of image itself, the author uses the works of L. Geller, V. A Milovidov, A. G. Sidorov, V. V. Shilin and etc.

This article is devoted to the consideration of the concept of “creativity”. Creativity is considered as a person’s ability to think outside the box, as a resource for innovative development and qualitative transformation of the sociocultural sphere. At the same time, the importance of value, moral, and ethical norms in understanding creativity is emphasized. Particular attention is paid to the semantic separation of the terms “creativity” and “creativity”. Based on the theory of the concept by Yu. S. Stepanov, the author builds a theoretical model of the concept “creativity” as a layered formation.