Title of the article:

DIFFICULTIES IN TRANSLATING COLLOQUIALISM “LOOK HERE” FROM THE FAIRY TALE OF P. P. YERSHOV “THE LITTLE HUMPBACKED HORSE” INTO GERMAN LANGUAGE

Author(s):

Saltanat Dz. Makasheva

Evgeniia B. Erenchinova

Information about the author/authors

Saltanat Dz. Makasheva — DSc in Philology, Professor, Industrial University of Tjumen, Lunacharski St. 2, Tjumen, Russia. E-mail: makascheva@mail.ru

Evgeniia B. Erenchinova — Postgraduate Student, Senior Lecturer, Industrial University of Tjumen, Lunacharski St. 2, Tjumen, Russia. E-mail: deutsche2011@mail.ru

Section

Philological sciences

Year

2019

Volume

Vol. 51

Pages

pp. 156–167

Received

April 09, 2018

Date of publication

March 28, 2019

Index UDK

821.161.1

Index BBK

83.3(2Рос=Рус)52+83

Abstract

The paper deals with the study of Russian popular speech and explores semantic meanings and translation of the colloquialisms into German language, namely the colloquialism “look here” from the fairy tale of P. P. Yershov “The little Humpbacked Horse”. The study involves various approaches to understanding colloquial speech as a national phenomenon of the living Russian language, as well as the historical dynamics of colloquial speech evolution from the set of forms of oral speech to the stylistic category of the literary language. In this context, the authors look at the special role of colloquialisms in forming artistic and stylistic devices of romanticism and realism of Russian literature of the 19th century. The colloquialism as a socially-conditioned variety of the national language enabled realism to create a variety of folk character-types. The role of colloquialisms in developing Russian literary fairy tale poetics was equally important. It is one of the leading genres of romanticism drawing upon folklore — the basis of the national culture. The colloquialisms contribute not only to creation of folk characters, but also convey the finest semantic and expressive nuances of the Russian language. This fact becomes apparent when studying the ways of translation of the colloquialism “look here” from the fairy tale of P. P. Yershov “The little Humpbacked Horse” into German language. The paper analyzes the semantic, expressive-evaluative and figurative-expressive levels of the colloquialism “look hear” in the fairy tale “The little Humpbacked Horse” and the ways of its translation into German language. The results of the study are given in tables.

Keywords

Russian language, colloquialism, translation, German language, folklore, Russian literature, romanticism, A. S. Pushkin, P. P. Yershov, “Humpbacked Horse”, fairy tale, “look hear”, poetics, artistic image, literary language.

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