TRANSLATION OF VIRTUAL FICTION WORLDS IN THE ASPECT OF RECEPTIVE COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT

This article offers an analysis of the main dilemmas that the translator has to face while working with texts that explicate the virtual fiction world based on the socio-cultural specifiers of the original language culture. There is a view offered on various methods of translating texts within the aesthetic and pragmatic aspects; there have been certain factors identified, which complicate work with a text, as well as some solutions analyzed that related to translation dilemmas, based on the example of translated excerpts taken from well-known fantasy works. The authors raise the issue of the reason for cultural adaptation of the original text in view of the recipient’s realities, namely, the translation and adaptation of proper names in the target language is viewed.

This article is an overview of the basic dilemmas that an inexperienced translator may face through their professional activities, while having no sufficient level of respective competencies that would allow resolving the communication issue successfully. The examples are based on excerpts from well-known works belonging to the genre of fantasy, which represent a fictional virtual world that features no historic relation to the real one, which fact, however, does not exclude the need for sociocultural background knowledge; there is also a view on wordplay offered as well as on ways to translate it; besides, there is specifics of proper names translation examined; representative examples are employed to analyze stylistic, lexical and grammatical transformations in translation.

The stylistic aspect in the translation of virtual fiction worlds is considered to be basic within the framework of preserving the original perlocutionary effect. Translation of stylistic means of expression when creating a virtual world is performed through descriptive translation, which entailscomplication of the syntactic constructions of the target text. The most effective technique in this case is to preserve the themу-rheme connections of the source text, which leads to the neutralization of stylistic components. As a technique to deliver the author’s individual onyms, which create a virtual space, the process of implementing due perlocutionary effect employs transcription and transliteration, at the same time preserving the author’s specifics, while the proper level of adequacy is reached through translation loans, provided the outer form of the onym and its emphatic features are preserved. 

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