Прагматична адаптація у перекладі оповідання О.Пчілки «Артишоки» (англ.)

Abstract

The article focuses on the study of ways of pragmatic adaptation of the translation of the short story «Artichokes» written by Olena Pchilka and translated by Roma Franko. This paper aims at analyzing the significance of the pragmatic potential of the text during translation and defining the main ways of pragmatic adaptation. It is underlined that rendering of the pragmatic meaning of the original by means of which the author of the work of fiction achieves a desirable communicative effect presents some difficulties. Translation transformations that can help a translator in the process of pragmatic adaptation of the target text are described. The article also deals with the peculiarities of realia units functioning as sociocultural and ethnospecific elements of describing the world in Ukrainian literature. The ways of the translation of realia as markers of tradition and everyday life of a certain culture are highlighted. The article also describes the ways of pragmatically motivated paraphrasing on the syntactical level. It is underlined that the translator should in any case adhere to the pragmatic equivalence of the source text and the target text, and it is desirable that the text should have the same effect both on the native speaker and non-native speaker. The pragmatic adaptation is an integral part of translation procedures which ensure the necessary level of equivalence.