APPROACHES TO THE RECREATION OF VERBAL IMAGES INTO ENGLISH

Abstract

The article examines the problem of translation of verbal images from Ukrainian into English. The examples for exploring have been derived from the extracts of one of Ukrainian Dumas, rendered by George Tarnawsky and Patricia Kilina. These folk heroic epic works is a great medium for investigating Ukrainian people’s aspirations and their mode of exist­ence. The paper attempts to show stylistic archaisms and historicisms, their definitions and the methods of the translation of certain examples. The research examines two groups of obsolete words, which have been studied by O. Ponomariv. The issue of historicisms has been highlighted by S. Bacharach as they depend on the historical context in which the paper is created. This study advances the understanding of the notion of “realia” and methods of their rendering due to the analysis of this problem in the dumy. The situational equivalent as the method of realia reproduction has been pointed out. It has been explored by a prominent Ukrainian scholar R. Zorivchak in her book “Realia and translation”. This paper also provides insights into the definition of “idioms” from Stryga’s scientific work. One has illustrated the method of phraseological calque in the translation of the idiom in Ukrainian Dumas. One has argued that the translation of stylistic archaisms and historicisms, realia, and idioms is not only a matter of the translation techniques but also of the art of translation. The article considers the explanation of words and phrases, provided in diverse Ukrainian and English dictionaries, including Great explanatory dictionary of the modern Ukrainian language, The etymological dictionary of the Ukrainian language in 7 volumes, Dictionary of the Ukrainian language, Illustrated Oxford Dictionary, Collins Cobuild English Dictionary for Advanced Learners, Bloomsbury Dictionary of Word Origins.