Linguocolorisms in literary translation

Abstract

Linguocolorisms as part of the artistic aura in a poetic text are reviewed in the present article from the standpoint of the translator’s strategy, which is exemplified by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson’s poems and their Russian translations by A. Gavrilov, E. Valgurina and V. Avsiyan. The translator’s operations and transformations, such as invariant correspondences, borrowings, replacement, omittance, addition, dislocation or rearrangement, may cause local and global changes at the level of words, phrases, sentences as well as at the level of the whole text. The inevitable changes and radical transformation of the original poem can be motivated by the omitted linguocolorism, which has been demonstrated through the use of the conceptual models and mental patterns in the translated text; textual strategies of the poem are described from the perspective of the cognitive frame method.

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