Functional and linguosemiotic factors of reproducing artlangs in translation
Journal Title: Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна: Серія «Іноземна філологія. Методика викладання іноземних мов» - Year 2018, Vol 87, Issue
Abstract
<p>The article is dedicated to determining functional and linguosemiotic characteristics of artlangs as factors of their translation. Artlangs are defined as artificially created languages that function in literary discourse as a means of making fantastic worldview more expressive. Unlike planned languages, whose leading function is communicative, artlangs primarily realize aesthetic function that determines the specifics of their reproduction in translation as a stylistic dominant of such genres as utopia / dystopia, fantasy, and fairytale. Linguocreative function of artlangs also has a direct impact on the formation of the strategies of their reproduction in translation, since perceiving the mechanisms of the author’s linguocreative activity helps the translator act in a similar manner while construing the text of translation. According to linguosemiotic criterion, all artlangs fall into two classes – a posteriori and a priori ones. A posteriori artlangs comprise lexemes whose structural components are borrowed from natural languages. A priori artlangs, in their turn, comprise lexemes that demonstrate no relevance to natural languages. The priority method of translating a posteriori artlangs, whose words possess internal form and, consequently, can undergo morphemic segmentation, is calque (loan translation) which is seen in this paper as a manifestation of domestication strategy. The priority method of translating a priori artlangs whose lexemes possess no internal form is transcoding which is seen in this paper as a manifestation of foreignization strategy. As an example of a posteriori artlangs, G. Orwell’s Newspeak is considered; as an example of a priori artlangs, R. Adams’s Lapine language is considered.</p>
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