Stories Behind Words of Emotions: Ways to Assess the 1076 Kyivan Literary Monument in Contemporary Ukrainian and English Translations

Abstract

Opowieści poza słowami emocji. Kijowski pomnik literacki z 1076 roku we współczesnych tłumaczeniach -ukraińskim i angielskim Summary:The author discusses emotion terms through the prism of interlingual and intralingual translation. The prototype analysis applied expands the lexicographic interpretation of emotion terms by involving the reader's psychological experience. The model of a sociological analysis of emotions by J.E. Stets and J.H. Turner reveals how dictionaries influence users' mentality, and what is the correlation of the semantic features described in the dictionary and those present in the original. The presented descriptive criteria will stimulate approaches in search of guidelines for further evaluative interpretation and of emotion terms.

Modest Grief in the Office of the Dead: A Case Study of Emotion Terms in Translations of the Orthodox Funeral Vigil

“…The emotional aspects of communicative acts, pragmatics and semasiology are broadly and deeply summarized in two volumes of the collection "Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions" (Handbook, 2006;Handbook, 2014) which testified to the scarcity of investigating the labelling and classification of emotions. The naming of emotions, which depends on their etymological origin, but reflects the historical dynamics of its semantic life, has enjoyed much less attention (see the existing literature and some pioneering ideas in Shmiher (2018)).…”

“…The sociocultural parameters of assessing the translation of emotion terms has been taken from the sociological analysis by Stets and Turner (Stets & Turner, 2008) and attested for translation quality assessment in (Shmiher, 2018). The main ideas applicable for the context of penetrating the semantic structure of emotion terms focus on revealing their correlation with social structures and cultural experience.…”