Modeling of Translation Transformations: Cognitive Aspect (on the Material of Jane Austen’s Novel “Pride and Prejudice”)

Abstract

An urgent problem of modern cognitive sciences is the rethinking of the essence of the main processes of translation activity. The classical consideration of linguistic transformations within the framework of linguistics proper is replaced by their presentation as evidence of the activation of the cognitive structures of the translator's consciousness. In this article, from the position of the cognitive approach, the issue of the functioning of various types of concepts and the implementation of cognitive work procedures with them in the process of applying translation transformations is considered.The purpose of this article is an attempt to create a cognitive model of translation transformations describing various aspects of thought-language interaction, as well as an analysis of translation transformations according to the developed model. This model provides an opportunity to reveal the dynamic aspects of the translation process, to explain the essence of translation activity as a whole.The objectives of this work include the study of theoretical works on the research topic, the disclosure of the concept of translation transformations, the analysis of types of transformations and their identification in the original text and the translation text, the definition of key points of the relationship of cognitive units and verbal meanings.A consistent study of the cognitive foundations of translation transformations was carried out using the methods of conceptual analysis, comparative analysis of the original and the translation texts, namely on the material of Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice" and its translation by I.S. Marshak. The illustrative material is represented by examples that were selected by the method of continuous sampling from texts.The results obtained allow us to conclude that the use of translation transformations can change the type of concept and the field of knowledge, as well as involve another cognitive mechanism.