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Translation of The: Science Fiction Texts

This document discusses the translation of science fiction texts. It defines science fiction as a genre based on fantastic assumptions within scientific reality. It also describes two main types of translation as literary translation, which aims for aesthetic impact, and informative translation, which communicates information. Finally, it discusses trends in modern literary translation theory, including a shift from evaluation to description and viewing translations in a cultural context.

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Translation of The: Science Fiction Texts

This document discusses the translation of science fiction texts. It defines science fiction as a genre based on fantastic assumptions within scientific reality. It also describes two main types of translation as literary translation, which aims for aesthetic impact, and informative translation, which communicates information. Finally, it discusses trends in modern literary translation theory, including a shift from evaluation to description and viewing translations in a cultural context.

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TRANSLATION OF THE

Science
Fiction texts
NADIA LINISHUCK

SCIENCE FICTION (NF) TRANSLATION

is a genre in literature, cinema reproduction of the original by


and other arts, one of the means of another language while
varieties of fiction. Science maintaining the unity of content
fiction is based on fantastic and form. This unity is achieved
assumptions that do not go by a holistic reproduction of the
beyond the scientific ideological content of the
perception of reality, both in original in its characteristic
the natural sciences and the stylistic originality on a different
humanities linguistic basis.
Main information about sci-fi texts:
fantastic assumptions that do not go
BASED ON beyond the scientific perception of reality

SIZE brevity and compactness in presentation

to inform the reader, not the aesthetic


MAIN TASK impact on him

TYPES OF TRANSLATION literary translation and informative


translation
The main types of lexical transformations
used in the translation process :

translation
transliteration
transcription

lexical-semantic
tracing
substitutions
IN THE MODERN WORLD, TWO TYPES OF
TRANSLATION PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE:
LITERARY TRANSLATION AND INFORMATIVE
TRANSLATION.

Literary translation - is a
Informative translation -
type of translation, the main
is the translation of texts,
task of which is to achieve a
the main task of which is
certain aesthetic influence,
to communicate any
to create an artistic image.
information, message,
In the texts of literary
information, and not the
translation there are many
aesthetic impact on
stylistic devices that create
readers.
this artistic image.

Science fiction is an appropriate basis


for word formation, because to create
new concepts the author uses new
vocabulary, characteristic only of
science fiction. This vocabulary is
difficult to perceive, because in
everyday life it does not occur.
NEOLOGISMS
IN SCIENCE FICTION, THE WRITER USES NEOLOGISMS
TO CREATE A NEW REALITY, WHICH INTRODUCES THE
AUTHOR TO THE READER.

Bright examples of neologisms are the works of famous authors:


Frank Herbert « Dune» (1965), Antony Burgess «A Clockwork
Orange» (1962).
1) the main orientation is transferred
from the original to the text of the
translation;

IN THE MODERN THEORY


OF LITERARY
2) the evaluation approach is
TRANSLATION THERE replaced by a descriptive one;
ARE THREE MAIN
TRENDS:
3) from the text as a unit of language, the
theory goes to the function of translation as
part of the culture of the language of
translation
THANK YOU FOR
ATTENTION

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