Diana Klimova

Strategies of translational representation of Ukrainians in Alexander Godin’s short story “My dead brother comes to America”

Introduction

Strategies of translational representation of ukrainians in alexander godin’s short story “my dead brother comes to america”. Analyzes translation strategies for Ukrainian family images in Godin’s "My dead brother comes to America." Explores linguistic means to convey war and emigration trauma.

Abstract

The article is focused on analysing strategies for reproducing linguistic and stylistic means of constructing images of the Ukrainian family in the translation of the short story “My dead brother comes to America”. In modern translation studies, artistic image is considered a multi-level structure that is formed through a system of linguistic and stylistic means. The relevance of the study is determined by the insufficient attention paid to the topics of war and emigration in the works of Ukrainian diaspora writers. The aim of the study is to analyse the linguistic and stylistic means of forming character images and to identify strategies for reproducing artistic images of Ukrainians in the short story “My dead brother comes to America”. The study involved the application of a number of methods, including structural-semantic, linguistic-stylistic, contextual and comparative analyses. The translation was made by the author, which allowed to introspectively determine the motivation for the translator’s decisions. The results of the analysis of the translation of Ukrainian artistic images allow us to conclude that the use of the strategies of neutral reproduction and intensification contributes to the faithful rendering of the psychological portrait of a Ukrainian family and allows us to convey its traumatic war and emigration experiences. Not only the external characteristics of the characters are reproduced in the translation, but also their internal emotional state, in particular their experiences, fears and psychological tension, which helps to reveal the image of a Ukrainian family in the conditions of war and emigration.

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