On Transmitting Expressiveness in Belarusian-English Poetic Translation

Yuliya Sakalova

doi:10.2478/rela-2014-0012

Authors

Yuliya Sakalova Belarusian State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2478/rela-2014-0012

Keywords:

poetic translation, linguistics, pragmatics, equivalence, expressiveness

Abstract

The present article deals with various lexical, grammatical, stylistic problems encountered by translators while transmitting aspects of expressiveness of the original text (on the example of Belarusian-English poetic translation). The focus of attention is on basic transformation types, which are illustrated by the original and colourful examples. The author of the article considers not only purely linguistic aspects of translation, but also relevant pragmatic adaptation.

Author Biography

Yuliya Sakalova, Belarusian State University

Yuliya Sakalova (Belarusian State University, Minsk – corpus linguistics/textanalysis/ translation studies/cross-cultural communication) has taught EFL in the Department of Philology for 10 years. Being a PhD candidate in applied linguistics, she investigates the problem of Belarusian-English literary translation. She has published and presented in the area of translation-related issues, cross-cultural communication, methodology of the language.

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