Original research article
Intercultural Studies of Central and Eastern Europe

Ways to Translate Lexical Units in the Stories of the Collection Tales Of Robots by Stanislav Lem: Polish-Ukrainian Parallels

2024, 17, No. 1

Hanna Sytar

0000-0001-8806-8322

Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Slavic Institute, Department of Slavonic Linguistics and Lexicography

Lidia Baranowska

0000-0002-1912-9029

Wasyl Stus Donetsk National University in Vinnytsia, Department of General and Applied Linguistics and Slavonic Philology

DOI

10.31338/2544-3143.si.2024-17.9

Publication date

12.12.2024

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open access

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CC BY 4.0 Int.

Field

Humanities

Discipline

history

Language of publication

Ukrainian

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Abstract

This article discusses the issues associated with the translation into Ukrainian of the collection of short stories Tales of Robots by Stanislav Lem. There are six translation methods used by professional translators: dictionary matching, transcoding, literal translation, contextual substitution, formal negation, and descriptive translation. Among the lexical transformations in the analysed translations, word extraction, and generalisation were recorded.The analysis of the language material allows us to distinguish two patterns. First, it is possible to state the consolidation of certain methods of translation for certain groups of vocabulary; in particular, the author’s novelties are conveyed by using literal translation, whereby proper names are translated by the means of different subtypes of transcoding as well as literal translation. Second, the choice of translation method is often chosen considering not only the features of the source and target languages, but also using language intuition, ”language taste”, and craft of the translator.

Keywords:

vocabulary,lexical transformation,Polish language,translation method,Stanislav Lem,Ukrainian language

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