“Strong” Texts of the Russian Literature in Translations:Cultural and Language Comprehension

Razumovskaya, Veronica A.; Разумовская, В.А.

doi:10.17516/1997-1370-0213

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“…The Yakut Olonkho is represented in various types of translation (compare the categories of inexhaustibility of the source text, multiplicity of translation (Razumovskaya, 2018)), including adapted translations for children, prosaic translations, versifications by Russian poets, literary Olonkho-based texts for children, full poetic translations, scientific translations (Vasil'eva, 2017: 47). In scientific translation, "attention is paid not only to the accuracy of conveying the contents, but also to the lexical and grammatical structure of the text as a unique feature of the Yakut epos worth deeper examination" (Vasil'eva, 2017: 49).…”

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Characteristics of the G.V. Baishev’s Translation of the Yakut Heroic Olonkho Epic “Ala-Bulkun” Into Russian (Illustrated by Verbs of Motion and Epic Formulae)

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Ефремов²

2018

J. Sib. Fed. Univ., Humanit. soc. sci.

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The objective of the study is to reveal the main techniques of the translation of the Yakut Olonkho epos "Ala-Bulkun" into Russian, made by the Yakut linguist and writer G.V. Baishev -Altan Sarin (1898-1931. The study is based on the verbs of motion and some main epic formulae used in this Olonkho epos. The analysis of the techniques used for translation of the Yakut verbs of motion into Russian showed that the verbs are translated with the reformulation technique. It suggests that the translator sought to adequately communicate the semantics of the Yakut verbal forms. This, in turn, is determined by the fact that verbal forms as predicative structures are the heads of both dependent and independent predicative structures. The epic formulae are translated using parallelism or by dividing the sentence into several sentences. Besides, to expand the context in order to reveal the translated information more slowly, the repetition technique is used. It was found that the translation under consideration demonstrates some elements of authorized translation. The studies of Olonkho translation techniques aimed at communicating the stylistic and poetic features of this Yakut folklore genre are of both theoretical and practical importance.

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