TECHNIQUES AND METHODS OF TRANSLATION OF CULTURALLY MARKED VOCABULARY IN ARTISTIC TEXT (IN THE SERBIAN AND UKRAINIAN LANGUAGES)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of translation methods and techniques used for transferring the culturally marked vocabulary from Serbian language into Ukrainian. The material for the research is the Serbian novel „Ситничарница „Код срећне руке“, written by Goran Petrovich and its Ukrainian variant «Крамничка «З легкої руки», translated by A. Tatarenko. The object of the paper is culturally marked vocabulary and its subject — methods and techniques used for translation the Serbian nationally marked units into Ukrainian language. The study pays particular attention to the revealing the culturally marked lexis units in original novel; considers typological peculiarities of the culturally marked lexicon in a translation aspect; discusses the difficulties in its translation into Ukrainian. The main content of the article is to analyze translation techniques and level of equivalence of the translation. As a result of the research, the concepts of culturally marked vocabulary and background knowledge clarified; the translation methods of onomastic lexicon is determined, the level of adequacy of the translation assessed. The results of the study allow us to draw the following conclusions: proper names can be translated in various techniques: transcription / transliteration, calque, reformulation (sometimes known as equivalence, as usual, for idioms), and descriptive translation with generalization or specification, and so on. The analyzed Ukrainian translation is quite adequate. The prospect of further research is associated with comparative (for related languages) or contrastive (for unrelated languages) method to analyze translations of the same text from different origin as well as in the theoretical comprehension of vocabulary related to the background knowledge of speakers of a certain language, and its practical study.