SPATIAL AND CULTURAL DISLOCATION OF EPIC NAMES AND WAYS TO OVERCOME IT IN TRANSLATION

Аннотация

The research objective is to consider various aspects of the translation of the Yakut epic tradition: linguoculturological, lexical, stylistic and phonetic, including spatial and cultural dislocation of epic proper names (PN), the transfer of which into another language causes particular diffi culties. The concept of PN includes proper names and vocabulary specifi c to a particular culture. The relevance of this work is due to the lack of theoretical and methodological work on the principles of the translation of Yakut epic texts, as well as the need to create adequate translations of Yakut texts in other languages. The main research methods are the comparative method and methods of phonological analysis. The methodological basis was the works of foreign and Russian researchers on phonology: L. V. Shcherba, L. R. Zinder, V. N. Vitomskaya; on the theory and practice of translation: A. V. Superanskaya, T. A. Kazakova, J. Catford; the works of researchers on the theory of the Yakut language and linguistic problems of the study of Yakut olonkho: O. N. Betlingk, N. D. Dyachkovsky, E. I. Korkina, I. V. Pukhov; on the translation of the Olonkho epic into Russian: T. I. Petrova, et al. The study analyzes examples from various epic texts taken from previously published sources and manuscripts, as well as from the fi rst full-text English translation of the Yakut heroic epic Olonkho Nurgun Botur the Swift by P. A. Oyunsky, 2014. The article presents widely the ways of overcoming the cultural incompatibility of PN and other diverse cultural-specifi c components when translating them from Yakut into Russian and English. As the results of the research, such translation techniques as transcription in combination with transliteration are proposed, for which a table of practical transcription of Yakut phonemes into Russian and English has been developed; translation using an analogue; approximate translation; simplifi cation of the sound and graphic forms of the word in translation, etc. At the same time, the author separately mentions the undesirability of cultural substitution of concepts.

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