Typological Parameters of a Literary Text From the Viewpoint of Translation Studies

Abstract

The article presents an attempt to systematize approaches to identifying typological parameters and distinctive features of a literary text that influence the adequacy of translation. Traditional approaches to the analysis and interpretation of a literary text in our study were significantly supplemented by the approaches and methods of analysis of new linguistics trends: linguopragmatics, cognitive linguistics and linguoculturology. It should be taken into account that the function of a literary sign goes beyond the limits of a linguistic unit and serves not only as a means of verbalizing certain concepts, but also acts as a regulator of cognitive-pragmatic relations between the writer, translators and readers, appealing to their own experience, which, on the part of the author of the work , is presented in the text in the form of certain signals verbalized by means of linguistic units that reproduce the socio-cultural context and are a reflection of his/her worldview. For the reader, such a reality, refracted through the prism of the authors perception, can be supplemented and thought out taking into account his/her own empirical experience. As a result of the study, the following parameters of a literary text, which significantly affect the adequacy of the translation were identified: 1) the anthropocentric nature of a literary text; 2) the communicative structure of a literary text, aimed at indirect communication between the author and the reader; 3) the presence of surface and deep structures, revealed through an interpretive approach to the analysis of a literary text; 4) the conceptual integrity of the text, explicated by means of certain signals or markers, appealing to the individual cognitive experience of the reader; 5) the pragmatic potential of a literary text, revealed through a detailed analysis of communicative situations, explicitly or implicitly presented in the text; 6) the national picture of the world, represented by culturally specific means, which differ significantly between the linguocultures of the original and the translation; 7) stylistic potential of a literary text; 8) ambiguity and entropy, which can lead to incorrect interpretation and, as a result, to a violation of the adequacy of the translation of a literary text.