Translating Anna Karenina - to the Question About the Pragmatics of Translation

Authors

  • Ekaterina Gurina St.Tikhon Orthodox University, Faculty of Philology, 23-5A Novokuznetskaya St., Moscow, 115184

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15503/jecs20162.307.315

Keywords:

idiodialect, idiostyle, pragmatics, pragmalinguistics, pragmastylistics, translation, semiotics, stylistics, style

Abstract

The article deals with the stylistic peculiarities of the translations made by R. Pevear and L. Volokhonsky, L. and A. Maud, J. Carmichael of the novel Anna Karenina by L. Tolstoy on the basis of pragmastylistics and comparative analysis. It tries to analyze the text of the novel using the lingo-stylistic characteristics in accordance with the national bias in the way of thinking and individual creative preferences of every translator taking an attempt to introduce a foreign picture of the world to his countrymen. It underlines the impact of Tolstoy’s complicated attitude towards the customs and traditions of the Russian Orthodox church and the specific relationship of the author of the novel with God and its manifestation in the description of the heroes’ characters. In stresses how vital it may turn out to preserve the author’s ideostyle - lexis and syntax (the word order, the choice of them and the length of the sentences) for the successful interpretation of the writer’s views and stance by the reader.

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Author Biography

Ekaterina Gurina, St.Tikhon Orthodox University, Faculty of Philology, 23-5A Novokuznetskaya St., Moscow, 115184

Graduate student of the Orthodox St. Tikhon Humanitarian University ,   Department of Theory and History of Literature, specializing    in Linguistics and literary criticism,   senior lecturer of the Moscow State Technical University named after N.E. Bauman, Department of  Foreign Languages for Instrument building specialties.  My scientific interests are connected with the literary translation, literary criticism, stylistics, linguistics, methods of   foreign language teaching.

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Published

2016-09-10

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Gurina, E. (2016). Translating Anna Karenina - to the Question About the Pragmatics of Translation. Journal of Education Culture and Society, 7(2), 307–315. https://doi.org/10.15503/jecs20162.307.315

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Vol. 7 No. 2 (2016): Journal of Education Culture and Society

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