THE TRANSFORMATION PECULIARITIES OF A METAPHORIC SEMANTIC SPACE OF A LITERARY TEXT IN THE TRANSLATION
The article is dedicated to the research of the transformation of metaphoric semantic space of an English-language literary text in the translation. The basic objective during the process of translation is preserving as much as possible the author’s style because its deformation reduces in a great degree the aesthetic and pragmatic effect of the text. On the other hand, within the sphere of metaphorical meanings, the semantic and stylistic peculiarities of different languages are vividly manifested and they often determine a significant transformation of metaphoric semantic space of the sourse text. As the material for the research, the metaphors from F.S. Fitzgerald’s novel «The Great Gatsby» and their translation into Russian by Ye.D. Kalashnikova are taken. By a metaphoric semantic space we mean a certain set of statistically correlated semantic features which reflect the generalized classes of reality referents used as the objects of hidden comparison in the manifestation of a metaphoric image. The representation of the metaphoric semantic space of a literary text and its analysis is realized through several stages: a representative selection of image-metaphors of the literary text under consideration is conducted; a set of semantic features which are significant in the semantic structure of the metaphors under discussion are detected; by means of the frequency analysis the quantitatively relevant semantic features, forming the nuclear of the metaphoric semantic spaces of the text-original and the text-translation, are brought out; with the help of the frequen-cy analysis the quantitatively irrelevant semantic features, forming the periphery of the metaphoric semantic spaces of the sourse text and the target text are elicited; the confirmation of the data found by means of the frequency analysis is realized with the help of correlation analysis in order to verify the validity of the results of the research; the comparative analysis of the structure of semantic spaces of the sourse text and the target text is carried out in order to detect integral and differential quantitative characteristics. The conclusion is that the process of translation significantly changes the metaphoric semantic space of the novel under discussion and this fact one more time proves the idea that every language is characterized by specific features in the sphere of its metaphorical meanings.