Ukrainian Reader Research Articles

ОБРАЗ МЕКСИКИ У РОМАНІ Б. ТРАВЕНА «ЗБИРАЧІ БАВОВНИ»

This article is devoted to the study of the components of the image of Mexico in the novel «Cotton pickers» («Die Baumwollpflücker», 1925) by German writer B. Traven. This research introduces «Cotton pickers» as the first artistic acquaintance with Mexico for the Ukrainian readers in the year 1930, and clarifies the place of the novel in the Ukrainian culture of that time. The author aims to analyze the novel «Cotton pickers» as a «laboratory» of Mexican imagery of the writer and to trace the transformations of the figurative representations of this country. Depicting his hero in constant motion in search of work, the writer creates a unique image of Mexico, which mutually reflects society and geography, human habits and animal behavior, working conditions and climate. The research investigates the topic of labor in the novel and analyzes the socio-political attitude of its author. The article describes different ethnical images, presented by B. Traven, such as Germans, French, Indians, Americans. The research determines the direction of thematic development of the novel: from the description of strikes and difficult working conditions to the apotheosis of the beauty of Mexico and its inhabitants. Images of cotton pickers, confectioners, waiters, cattle drivers as well as bandits and whores are considered. The article analyzes the writer’s style, characterized by detailed descriptions of places, food, dances, city orchestras, railway stations. The scientific article shows the leading topos of B. Traven’s novels, including Mexican landscapes, streets and squares of Tampico, hostel, train, oil production etc. It is argued that the theme of the novel is broader than its title: the author creates an anthem for the country, summarizing its image in the dimensions of love and glorification. The research concluded that the content of the German novel reflects its task in the Ukrainian culture of the time: to present a realistic, true, devoid of exotic story about the overseas country.

Poezja Józefa Łobodowskiego w tłumaczeniach i krytyce Światosława Hordyńskiego

This paper attempts to interpret and evaluate Ukrainian translations of Józef Łobodowski’s poetry. Already in the 1930s, he was known to the Ukrainian reader primarily as a translator of Ukrainian poetry. His original work was also particularly appreciated by the Ukrainian émigré, mainly due to its pro-Ukrainian character. One of the precursors of the translations of Łobodowski’s poetry in the Ukraine was Sviatoslav Hordynsky. In the early 1950s, he translated, inter alia, the following works: Praise of Ukraine, Horse of Ataman Łobody and October Elegy. Hordyński was also a critic of Łobodowski’s works. His critical studies: Łobodowski’s poetry and its Ukrainian motifs and Józef Łobodowski and his poetry were published in Ukrainian periodicals. These essays discuss problems concerning Polish and Ukrainian poetry from the perspective of a contemporary observer, expert, and critic of Łobodowski’s work.

Діалектна основа перекладу Михайла Атаманюка німецькомовного роману К.Е. Францоза «Боротьба за право»

The article focuses on the first Ukrainian translation of the novel Ein Kampf um’s Recht by the Austrian writer Karl Emil Francoz of the mid-19th century, which tells about the struggle of Galician peasants - Rusins - for their land. The translation was made in Chernivtsi in 1910 by Mykhailo Atamanyuk, a Ukrainian writer and translator, whose creative legacy has been unfairly overlooked by researchers. Mykhailo Atamanyuk grew up and got education in Austro-Hungary, where he witnessed the interethnic dialogue and intercuLturaL contacts and mastered the local dialect from his childhood. These factors, together with Atamanyuk's consonance with Franzos in the perpception of reality, formed a reliable basis for a high-quality translation into the native language of its heroes. The authors argue that the translation under analysis accurately conveys all the typical features of the local dialect. The article analyses the translation in terms of the dialectal facts on different language levels and identifies phonetic, morphological, lexical, and syntactic dialectal phenomena, typical for the Transnistrian dialect of the Galician-Bukovinian dialects within the South-Western dialect of the Ukrainian language. Basing on the two toponyms mentioned in the novel, the authors determine its linguo-spatial background - Kolomyisky, Tlumatsky, Horodenkivsky, and Snyatinsky districts of Ivano-Frankivsk Region of modern Ukraine, which represent the Transnistrian dialect at the Ukrainian dialect map. These dialects formed the basis of the Western Ukrainian variety of the literary language, which contributed to the popularity of the novel among Ukrainian readers. Thus, for the first time, the dialect basis of Atamanyuk's Ukrainian translation of the novel Ein Kampf um’s Recht by K.E. Franzos has been established.

“We Need to Get People to Read”

The director of Vivat Publishing in Kharkiv praises the change in awareness among Ukrainian readers that followed Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. As Ukrainians turned their back on Russia, there was an upturn on the Ukrainian book market. Yet making books under wartime conditions has become complicated. There is a lack of paper and printing capacity. Only a minority of the population reads and buys books. Where demand exists, it can hardly be satisfied. Thus, there is a lack of competent Ukrainian non-fiction authors.

Book Review. A New Contribution to the Treasury of Translation Theory

Book Review. A New Contribution to the Treasury of Translation Theory

Літогенний потенціал карбонізації педосфери: теоретико-методологічні, методичні та екосистемний підходи

The problem of accumulation and preservation of organic matter (OM) in the pedosphere is one of the main in the world research space. Using the search engine "Google Academy" (Google Scholar) of full texts of scientific publications (articles) on this topic over the past 5 years, showed that the query "carbon sequestration" received – 452,000 sources, and "soil carbon" sequestration " and "soil carbon sequestration potential" – 59,700 and 56,900 sources, respectively, while on request in Ukrainian "carbon sequestration" – 178 and "soil carbon sequestration" – 85. Under these conditions, it is important to inform the Ukrainian reader about the latest achievements of world science on the problem of C-sequestration and C-deposition of various types ecosystems and land use. The presented literature review considers the gradual development of theoretical, methodological and methodical bases for the development of organic matter stabilization models, mainly by a matrix of mineral soils (<020 and <50 μm) using linear least squares regression equations, analysis of limit values and other methodical approaches. Approaches to the assessment of soil carbon capacity (Carbon Protective Capacity), carbon saturation by the mineral matrix (Carbon Saturation, CS), C-saturation of the soil (Saturation Deficit), as well as the functional features of C-sequestration and C-deposition are considered. The existing methods for assessing the stabilization potential of the OM and the reality of the successful implementation of the International Initiative "4 in 1000: Soils for Food Security and Climate", adopted in December 2015, have been critically evaluated. Taking into account the world experience, the need to move to a three-member classification of soil particle size distribution in Ukraine is considered.

Mythologie trahie : analyse comparée de la traduction du théâtre maeterlinckien en ukrainien et en russe

The history of Ukrainian and Russian translations of the playwright by Maurice Maeterlinck is full of well-known names like Lesya Ukrainka, Natalia Kobrynska, Valeriy Briussov and Nikolay Minskiy. Nevertheless some aspects of translations show several problems in misunderstanding of the realities of the French text. Our purpose was to make the comparative analysis of the Russian and Ukrainian translations of Ariane et Barbe-Bleue, a key text of the Maeterlinck’s theatre. The linguo-poetic and linguo-aesthetic analysis were used. The study have shown that the Slavonic translators have omitted the onomastic sign Ariadne revealed in the letters of the author to his German translator Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski where the mythic sign is clearly presented in order to make a transvalorization of the mythological intertext. The original results of our study was used for our new translation of the play Ariane et Barbe-Bleue for the Ukrainian readers published in 2007 then our analysis was developed in the doctorate thesis dedicated to the mythological intertext in the first theatre by Maurice Maeterlinck and in the chapter of our thesis of doctor of science devoted to the study of Greek mythology in the poetry of the Belgian Nobel Prize winner.

Book Sales and Readership Statistics: Ukrainian Trends 2021

The research study explores the phenomenon of consumer book buying behavior in COVID-19. The study focuses on Ukrainian reader's taste. We applied a questionnaire and obtained 100 responses. How much do people spend on books per month? What types of books are they buying? What genres are they selecting? Consumer insights play main role in a publisher’s strategies, from acquisitions to pricing and marketing campaigns. The results here indicate book buying habits of Ukrainian readers who participated in the survey in Kyiv “Bukva” bookshop in February 2021.

The Reception of Prose from the Republic of Moldova in Ukraine in the Second Half of the 20th Century

The process of receiving Romanian prose from the Republic of Moldova to Ukraine through artistic translations, carried out between 1954-1989, is treated, in general, under two aspects: the selection and individuality of translators. It is found that, in most cases, there were selected and published not only valuable works but also some writings that lack vigor and authenticity, composed in the spirit of socialist realism. The vast majority of the promoters of Romanian prose in the Ukrainian area represent distinct literary personalities. In the event of continuing the Romanian-Ukrainian literary dialogue, the author suggests selection for translation of other substantial epic works created in the Romanian area east of the Prut until 1940 without ignoring northern Bukovina and Herta. In this regard, the author proposes a list of epic creations that have enjoyed appreciation both in the local literary context and beyond. Only by taking these recommendations into account will the Ukrainian reader be given the true picture of the epic genre in these areas.

Рецепція творчості Лесі Українки в есеїстичному дискурсі Юзефа Лободовського

The article analyzes the literary and critical heritage of the Polish poet, prose writer, translator Jozef Lobodowsky, dedicated to the creative heritage of Lesya Ukrainka. Attention is focused mainly on an essay written back in 1938 to the 25th anniversary of her death. The essay presents the attitude of J. Lobodowsky to the personality of the Ukrainian writer. The Polish researcher examines the artist's work against the background of the era, set new tasks for Ukrainian writers - the withdrawal of literature from the networks of provincialism to the European arena. It was Lesya Ukrainka, according to J. Lobodowsky, who brought Ukraine closer to Europe, including with a whole range of original themes and motives that are rich in her work. The Polish researcher actualizes the main concepts that make up the core of Lesia Ukrainka's artistic world, among which he emphasizes the motive of nostalgia, the motive of national treason. We believe that J. Lobodowsky tends to a national-existential interpretation of the work of the Ukrainian writer. The purpose of research is to analyze the reception of Lesya Ukrainka's creativity in the literary-critical essay of the Polish researcher Jozef Lobodowsky and to define his work in the Lesya Ukrainka's discourse. Results of research. J. Lobodowsky enriched Lesya Ukrainka's discourse with interesting observations based on value paradigms, thanks to which the Ukrainian author managed to create a unique artistic world. The Polish researcher was able to see in the person of Lesya Ukrainka and her work a type of new Ukrainian man, thirsty for freedom, capable of self-sacrifice for the sake of a great idea. It is significant that it was in the artistic visions of the Ukrainian writer J. Lobodowsky that he found those values that were close to him. Lobodowsky's reflections on the artistic world of Lesya Ukrainka are not just an attempt to evaluate her work. Rather, it is an attempt to promote the name of the Ukrainian author and her creative work in Polish society. The significance of J. Lobodowsky's work on Lesya Ukrainka's work lies in the fact that the researcher, unlike Soviet literary critics, was not biased, which allowed him to actualize such problematic nodes of the writer's work that Ukrainian literary-critical thought could not consider under Soviet censorship. Therefore, for a long time Lesya Ukrainka in mainland Soviet Ukraine was a singer of dawn lights, a revolutionary (almost Bolshevik), and her work reached readers in a dosed form, without topics irritating to the vigilant censor. Let us recall at least the banned dramatic poem "Boyarynya", about which J . Lobodovsky wrote in 1938 and which "returned" to the Ukrainian reader in the 90s of the twentieth century after the restoration of Ukrainian independence. As we can see, J. Lobodowsky's national-existential interpretation of Lesya Ukrainka's work prevails. And this is quite natural, because the Polish researcher is close to the Ukrainian problems he was concerned with, trying to intellectually influence the understanding between the two peoples and eliminate the stereotypes about the provinciality of Ukrainian literature that prevailed in Polish society. Of course, one can find common ground in the ideological views of both poets, in the wandering plots inherent in their poetic work, in understanding the importance of translations of works of world literature, which led to the emergence of many interpretations. However, these many kinships highlight the circumstance that unites Lesya Ukrainka and J. Lobodowsky: they contributed to Ukraine's entry into the European cultural paradigm. Ukrainian writer - in the early twentieth century and Polish artist - three decades later, in the prewar decade. Since J. Lobodowsky translated Lesya Ukrainka's poetry, we see the prospect of further research in a detailed analysis of his poetic interpretation of the works of the Ukrainian author.

RECEPTIONS OF ECLESIAST IN THE WORKS OF R. KIPLING AND I. SHOW

The article examines the biblical image from Ecclesiastes «Bread upon the Waters», used by R. Kipling and I. Shaw as a title to their works. For the Ukrainian reader, this biblicalism does not evoke strong allusions or associations, which is explained by its spread only in English-speaking countries. This article attempts to analyze the works of English-language writers in view of the functioning of the biblical motif of «letting your bread on the water», the ambiguity of which was used differently, but in both cases the author’s dialogue with the reader gained spiritual meaning. R. Kipling as a master of narrative uses a system of narrators: the narrator-witness and the narrator-participant. Both, according to the classification of W. Schmid, did not acquire «omniscience and ubiquity», so the biblical truth is interpreted in a straight forward manner. Only the author’s strong position – the title of the work and the final phrases of the work, clarify the meaning of the images of water and bread. A comparison of the principle of the author’s vision of R. Kipling and I. Shaw leads to the conclusion of different artistic systems of the authors. For Kipling, the dialogue of the narrators is important, for I. Shaw – the hero’s self-absorption. In I. Shaw’s novel, biblicalism is also stated in the title of the work, but its hidden meaning is divided between the characters depending on their charitable deeds. Teacher Allen Strand’s Confession Diary is an author’s credo, as the call for mercy, for selfless help in spite of circumstances and results, is consistent with the title of the work. Comparison of two works of different writing times, artistic styles and genres prove the ambiguity and complexity of the biblical image, which combined the natural element and the measure of human labor – water and bread.

THE UNDERSTANDING OF MUSIC AS THE DISCOVERY OF THE OTHER: THE DIALOGUE WITH MARIO AZEVEDO

Introduction. We offer the materials which acquaint the Ukrainian reader with the thoughts of the musicologist Mario Azevedo (Portugal). Their content concerns the actual problem of understanding music through cognition of the Other in the culture of our time. The relevance of studying the concepts of “The World and the Other” has deep roots in the history of music and in the science about it. The discussion of the concept of the Other is presented in the form of an internal dialogue of various scientific ideas and within the text it is structured in sections: on the unreliability and hypertrophy of the world, the tangibility of the Other-in-me, the world of the Other. Results and Discussion. Thus, the problem of understanding the world through the concept of the Other indicates the relationship between philosophy and music in the modern world. It is clear that its realization took place not only in the post-Soviet humanities, but also in the practice of musicians from the various countries of Western Europe. The dichotomy “The World and the Other” responds to the challenges of our time by asserting the rights of the Other. The songs of the peoples of the world as a result of the multiplicity of national manifestations can and should create different relationships. If the Being is communication (John Zizioulas), then the Other is surely a Friend, a personality. The philosophical analytics of the concepts “The World – I”; “The World – the Other” outlines the circle of musical cognitive science, equally important for Portuguese and Ukrainian scholars. As a result, a conclusion was made about the need to build a different ethics and aesthetics, aimed at understanding the Other, about the need to hear the otherness of the world. The other opens up the possibility of an event – a change that takes place in our political life and contributes to changes in ourselves. That’s the motivation which is needed – just to hear the Other! In the other world, we could avoid the attraction to hegemonic models and smile more at the sounds of otherness. We live in a world where access to sameness is already used in many cultures, which feel excluded, marginal. Music is when we open up ourselves to each other, says Mario Azevedo. In his text, the scientist created an intellectual “tension”, by stating the thesis of the dangers of globalization. As a result of the principle of ethnocentrism, the study of the identity and diversity of the ethno-cultural landscape within the East-West radius is becoming increasingly popular. Multiculturalism contributes to the understanding of the foundations of foreign cultural traditions and the identification of universal musical experience. The process of musical cognition turns into a chain of events sanctified by the Gift of selfless relations with the Other, through Love and Joy of understanding. Conclusions. The meaning of music is to open more and more friends in the world of otherness through the experience of communication. Music as a language of human communication teaches how it is possible to exist without conflicts – on the basis of respect and recognition of the Other. And this opinion is able to put an end to the proposed discussion.

The Ukrainian bestseller: On the way to national identity

The article considers the commercially successful works of fiction written in Ukrainian since the beginning of Ukraine’s independence, and provides a brief excursion into the history of the issue. A bestseller is viewed as a multifunctional phenomenon, the emergence of which is determined by not only the presence of the literary text itself, but also the infrastructure and competent marketing necessary for good sales. In the 1990s there were no and could not be bestsellers, since there were no necessary infrastructure, support from the state, appropriate attitude of publishing houses, and moreover, there was no Ukrainian reader. The buyers would more willingly buy books in Russian and there was some distrust of modern Ukrainian literature. Certain changes took place in the 2000s. Since the mid-2000s in Ukrainian culture the hit sales are books that offer a biased view of the controversial historical events of the Soviet past, use “hate speech” in relation to other ethnic groups, and manipulate the reader’s empathy. A conclusion is made about the relevance of such a one-dimensional image of the past for the formation of Ukrainian national identity in the current historical period.

ЦИКЛ «КРИМСЬКІ СОНЕТИ» А. МІЦКЕВИЧА У ПЕРЕКЛАДІ О. АСТАФ’ЄВА: ХУДОЖНЄ ВІДТВОРЕННЯ РЕАЛІЙ

The article highlights the specifics of the artistic translation of the realities in A. Mickiewicz’s cycle “The Crimean Sonnets” translated by O. Astafiev into Ukrainian language. The research is based on: Adam Mickiewicz’s poetic cycle “The Crimean Sonnets”; Ukrainian-language version of the cycle, included in the anthology “By another’s fire” (2020), other editions of translations of Polish literature classic into Ukrainian; theoretical researches of the polonists R. Radyshevsky, N. Sydiachenko and other scientists. A. Mickiewicz’s life experience during his trip to the Crimea led to the creation of the original cycle “The Crimean Sonnets”. The article briefly reveals the creative history of writing one of the pearls of the Polish artist’s poetic work, outlines the stages of translation strategies for reproducing the origin in the language of T. Shevchenko and I. Franko. The analysis of the translation is performed in the context of the syncretism of the work on the compositional and ideological-thematic levels. In general, the artistic construction of “The Crimean sonnets” is synthetic, because it combines a verbal image of the panorama of the Crimea peninsula, philosophical problems, local traditions, traveling plot, the confrontation between man of the East and the European traveler, the synthesis of literary genres. The ideological specifics and artistic design of the original work implies a significant number of realities related to the geography and culture of the Crimea. Realities are translated into Ukrainian by transliteration. In some cases, the translator offered the notes with explanations, both from the author of the sonnets and from the translator. We find translated author’s notes to geographical, religious, historical, everyday realities, which are transliterated by A. Mickiewicz into Polish. O. Astafiev’s translation also contains author’s notes and his own additional explanations. There are some cases when the translator bypasses the realities that are clear to the Ukrainian reader. In many fragments, the interpreter performed contextual translation and proposed a modulation method. The poetic translation of the Crimean Sonnets by O. Astafiev into Ukrainian identifies one of his most important interpretive principles: in order to create an adequate version of a foreign text, one must know all the works of the author of the original against the background of the era, know the history of the country, life and customs of the people, its culture.

УКРАЇНСЬКА РЕЦЕПЦІЯ ПОЛЬСЬКОГО ХУДОЖНЬОГО РЕПОРТАЖУ: ПОСТРАДЯНСЬКІ РЕЦИДИВИ І СИНДРОМ ПОСТКОЛОНІАЛЬНОЇ ПУСТКИ

For the first time in Ukrainian literary studies the specificity of the Ukrainian reception of reportages by J. Hugo-Bader describing post-Soviet reality on the territories of Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Transnistria is analyzed. For Ukrainian readers, it is particularly important to read these texts through the prism of their own experience of life after the collapse of the Soviet colossus. The Ukrainian success of White Fever is evidenced by the fact that it has undoubtedly been a powerful stimulus to rethink the phenomenon of modern Russia and to overcome this deformed reality of delirium tremens, in which post-communist freedom is a curse. In the article, special attention is paid to text-reactions, discussing Hugo-Bader’s linguistic skill and his reporter’s method of “hugging” the interlocutor in order to create texts showing not only the unknown reality, but also evoking empathy.

ПЕРЕДОВИЦЫ СОВЕТСКИХ ГАЗЕТ 1941 ГОДА КАК СЕМИОТИКО-ЦВЕТОВОЙ СПЕКТРС ТОЧКИ ЗРЕНИЯ КВАНТОВОЙ ТЕОРИИ (или Применение метода квантового хроноса в идентификации семиотических и колористических маркеров текстов газеты «Московский большевик» за 1941год при их восприятии современными украинскими читателями 2020года)

The aimof the study was to use the quantum chronos method to identify semiotic and coloristic markers of the texts of the Moscow Bolshevik newspaper for 1941 when analyzing their perception by modern Ukrainian readers 19-20 years old, living in 2020 and studying at one of the country's universities.Methodology: metaphysical methods of monistic idealism and the method of quantum chronos, as well as approaches, categories and principles of quantum mechanics (“approach to many worlds or approach of many minds” by H. Everett, category of quantum nonlocality). The study used the methodological principles of positivism, namely: the principle of fallibilism by Charles Peirce and critical realism (Popper's criterion). Empirical methods were also involved: associative experiment, observation, description and measurement.The methodology(experimental procedure) consisted in the following: 6 newspaper editorials were selected in six issues of the Russian-language newspaper "Moskovsky Bolshevik" in 1941. The experiment took place on an individual basis from April 1 to April 20, 2020 using the electronic resource “free mail” on the “.ua” domain. 48 subjects aged 19 -21, living in two regions of Ukraine, were asked to see photocopies of newspaper editorials. According to the instructions, the subjects were asked to answer three questions: 1) “What color, in your opinion, is the text that you read?”; 2) “Why exactly this color?”; 3) "What does your chosen color mean?"Conclusions.The use of the quantum chronos method made it possible to establish specific reactions of subjects living in 2020 when analyzing their perception of distant communication texts (six editorials of the Moscow Bolshevik newspaper, which were published on January 15, March 16, May 17, July 16,September 16 and November 16, 1041). We have established that the frequency responses are three colors, namely: black, yellow and red. Semiotic reasons for color identification are reduce to the declaration of the names of the object realities of both thefirst year of the Great Patriotic War (1941) and the modern realities of 2020.

Значливість перекладу для філософської освіти (на прикладі українського перекладу «Критики чистого розуму» Імануеля Канта)

The paper deals with the Ukrainian translation of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781/87). We tried to answer the question of whether the Ukrainian reader who is willing to understand Kant's argument but does not understand the German original would be able to understand it by using only accessible now Ukrainian translation of this text. After checking the adequacy of terminological patterns applied in the translation and the correctness of the interpretation of overly complex syntax used by Kant, we concluded that it is impossible to understand Kant's argument by reading only accessible now Ukrainian translation of this text. It is noted that an unavoidable condition for a professional translation's success is the professional community's agreement on how specific terms of a particular author should be translated so that there could not be any terminological confusion during discussions. It is unacceptable when different words in the original language denote the same term in the original. The translation is always an interpretation.
 Consequently, the reader has to interpret the interpretation, so the translator's maximum task is to preserve the original meaning's multidimensionality as much as possible. However, it is, of course, impossible to achieve the multidimensionality inherent in the original completely. We concluded that the translator of a classical philosophical text should be a researcher who has proven his or her understanding of both the text he or she translates and the tradition to which this text belongs. All these conditions were not adequately met in the case of the translation of Kant's Critique. Due to many inconsistencies in the available Ukrainian translation of the Critique of Pure Reason, errors in the interpretation of the Kant's syntax, and sometimes even Kant's vocabulary, the reader will not be able to understand the key Kant terms.

PREFACE

PREFACE

СПЕЦИФІКА ПЕРЕКЛАДУ АНГЛОМОВНИХ НОВИННИХ ТЕКСТІВ УКРАЇНСЬКОЮ МОВОЮ (НА МАТЕРІАЛІ НОВИННИХ ТЕКСТІВ ОБСЄ)

The relevance of the research is based on the need for an in-depth study of effective ways, techniques and methods of translating English-language news texts into Ukrainian, in particular news texts of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), which is due not only to Ukraine’s membership in the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, but also to globalization and the intensive development of international relations, which in turn affect the increasing interest of modern Ukrainian readers in foreign news texts. In addition, the relevance of the topic is due to the increased attention of linguists to modern media discourse, which also includes news discourse, and the peculiarities of its translation. The aim of the work is to analyze the specifics of translating English-language news texts into Ukrainian based on the material of OSCE news texts. To achieve this goal, the following research methods were used: comparative and comparable methods for determining the features and problems of translating English-language news texts into Ukrainian; the method of systematization and the method of complex translation analysis for analyzing and systematizing the tools used in translating English-language news texts into Ukrainian, and also using the continuous sampling method to search for basic research materials. As a result of a comparative analysis of the original English-language news texts with their translations into Ukrainian, the regularities of applying specific translation strategy, as well as the corresponding translation transformations that are necessary to achieve an adequate translation of the English-language news text were determined. The study also analyzed the problem of finding an equivalent when translating news texts.

Переклад авторських неологізмів роману А. Сапковського «Ostatnie życzenie»

The article is devoted to the problem of translating individually author’s neologisms from Polish into Ukrainian, based on the neologisms presented in Andrzej Sapkowski’s novel «Ostatnie życzenie». These neologisms are the names of mythical creatures, in other words, creatures included in A. Sapkowski’s bestiary. The typology of the mentioned individually author’s neologisms according to the way of their creation is presented. Most of these neologisms are the result of application of the morphological way of word formation, neologisms-borrowing, semantic neologisms are also presented. The methods of translation of neological names of mythical creatures by three authors of Ukrainian translations of the novel has been analysed . It had found that different translators in certain cases choose different ways of translating names-neologisms, creating Ukrainian analogues-neologisms, selecting neologisms-borrowings or using common Ukrainian lexemes . Such a practice deserve to exist . However, the translator must adhere to a certain chosen translation strategy, giving to the reader the opportunity to navigate in the semantic and grammatical motivation of Ukrainian equivalents in foreign individually author’s neological names. In the analyzed translations, in our opinion, S. Legez successfully coped with this translation task, he most fully used the arsenal of methods of translating neologisms, in most cases preserving the models of neologism creation used by A. Sapkovsky. Ryabchuk tried to convey the meaning of the names of mythical creatures as clearly as possible for the Ukrainian reader, but this sometimes caused quite distant from the original ideas about the described creatures. In the translations of the names of mythical creatures in the text of N. Mykhailivska, G. Syneoka the desire to recreate fantastic realities by Ukrainian linguistic and literary expressive means is seen. It seems that this choice of Ukrainian equivalents, which are tracings or approximate translations, somewhat neutralizes the mystical coloring of the names of the creatures, felt in the original text.