https://doi.org/10.31261/pr.10085
The research is focused on the means of localizing the deictic center of a narrative in Russian translations of prose in English. Comparative analysis of translated variants and originals shows the approximating trend (widespread, but not universal) in Russian texts, marked by inserting proximal deictic words like ‘today’, ‘here’, ‘now’ in the passages concerning past events, employing historic present instead of past tense forms. These changes are usually made within the segments of narrative with internal focalization. The approximation is influenced by specific features of Russian grammar system (there are no strict rules for sequence of tenses, no constructions with Complex Object etc.) and by different narrative tradition (historic present is not so marked stylistically, and more widespread). Making the deictic center closer to the readers in Russian translations is often connected with translator’s strategy highlighting author’s devices for internal focalization in a narrative.
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No. 2 (174) (2021)
Published: 2021-03-20
10.31261/pr
Język Polski
Русский
English