EMOTIONALLY EXPRESSIVE LEXICAL UNITS RENDERING IN THE PROCESS OF FICTION TEXT TRANSLATION (BASED ON MATERIAL FROM «MATILDA» BY ROALD DAHL)

Abstract

Objective. The objective of the article is to to identify and describe the means of transmitting emotionally expressive information in translation. Methods. The main scientific results are obtained applying a set of general scientific and special methods of research, namely: analysis and generalization of scientific literature on the problems of emotionally coloured lexical unit rendering; theoretical generalization, analysis and synthesis; holistic and integral approaches to the study of stylistic phenomena; comparative, descriptive and analytical methods. Results. On the basis of comparative analysis the authors investigate the problem of stylistically coloured lexical units rendering in translation process of the story «Matilda» by Roald Dahl. Having studied the available literature on this issue, the authors state that the term «emotionally coloured lexical unit» is considered as a lexical unit that carries an emotional assessment in relation to an object, containing a sensual background. A characteristic feature of this kind of lexical units is their connotative meanings, that is, the polysemy of their meaning and the presence of a certain emotional stress in them. It is highlighted that for a competent literary translation, it is necessary to pay attention to the following factors: semantics of the lexical unit, context, colouring, peculiarities of use. When translating emotionally coloured vocabulary, it is most expedient to use the principle of equivalent translation, i.e. to translate an emotionally-coloured lexical unit of the original with an emotionally-coloured lexical unit in the target language. In cases where this is impossible, it is necessary to compensate for the lost emotional colouring. The rendering of emotionally coloured lexical units of the original should be based not only on lexical and syntactic correspondences. More important in this light is the task of preserving the tropes and figures of speech, in order to convey the artistic stylistics of the work. The analysis made it possible to reveal the presence in the text of a large number of emotionally coloured lexical units. Also, cases of translation of neutral lexical units, which were transferred into Ukrainian with an emotional connotation were identified. In the overwhelming majority of cases, the translator has correctly conveyed the emotional colouring inherent in the original. Deviations from the original, in general, did not affect the overall picture of the translation.