Translating the translingual text

Abstract

This article examines strategies applied in selected passages of Elena Petrova’s Russian translation of Olga Grushin’s anglophone novel The Dream Life of Sukhanov (2005). The novel is set in Moscow during the late Soviet period and depicts a crisis precipitated by the changes brought by glasnost in the life of a loyal apparatchik. Although the Russian-American writer Grushin composed the novel in her adopted language of English, it reflects a Russian cultural subtext and contains numerous Russian linguistic elements and cultural allusions. It is therefore interesting to analyze how these elements are rendered in the Russian translation, entitled Zhizn’ Sukhanova v snovideniiakh (2011). The analysis is followed by a consideration of challenges posed by translingual texts to theoretical understandings of translation. It argues that established concepts within translation studies, such as domestication, foreignization, source language and target language, are not well-suited to cases of literary translingualism.

Integrated Approach to Text Analysis in Teaching Translation at Linguistic Department

“…The same direction can be seen in the textocentric analysis, where a text is understood as an element of text activity created by the text, its reader, its writer and the surrounding reality and, accordingly, such analysis must refer to these participants [10]. Besides, the interaction between the author, the audience and the text can be examined by rhetorical analysis.…”