Yevheniia Savchenko
Candidate of Philology, Assistant Professor at the Department of Translation and Theoratical and Applied Linguistics, State Institution “South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky”
Odesa, Ukraine
e-mail: anneshirley2687@gmail.com
ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000–0001–7000–5155
Anhelina Haishun
Master of Arts in Translation Studies, State Institution “South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky”
Odesa, Ukraine
e-mail: joli95299@gmail.com
ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000–0002–1873–6695
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24195/2616-5317-2020-30-9
Key words: fiction, grammatical transformations, morphological transformations, syntactic transformations.
One of the most important tasks of the translator is to achieve the equivalence of the translation text. As a result, translators are forced to use various transformations, in particular grammatical ones. The study of grammatical transformations is also important from the point of view of identifying linguistic equivalence, the originality of the English literary language, its inherent characteristics. All of the above determines the relevance of the paper topic.
The aim of the work is to study the basic principles of the functioning of grammatical transformations in the British novel translation into Ukrainian.
The study is based on the continuous sampling method, translation and comparative method, transformational analysis, descriptive and quantitative methods and interpretive analysis methods.
It was found that morphological transformations were carried out using full, zero, partial translations, functional substitution (correspondence), assimilation, conversion and antonymic translation in the conditions of similarity of forms. The morphological transformations in the conditions of form discrimination were carried out using zero translation, functional substitution, conversion, expansion and contraction. The syntactic transformations at the level of word combinations were carried out using a full translation, such types of partial translation as contraction, expansion and transposition, functional substitution, translation commentary or descriptive translation. The syntactic transformations at the sentence level were carried out using zero translation, functional substitution, transposition, expansion, contraction, antonymic translation, addition, omission.
Such transformations most often complement each other, thereby compensating a certain loss of information in a certain extent through the restructuring of the original text. Each such transformation is directed, first of all, to an adequate way of transferring the initial information in forms that are acceptable for the cultural tradition and the target language.
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