THE ROLE OF SYNTAX MODELS AND FIGURES OF SPEECH IN THE GROUNDING OF A TRANSLATED TEXT
The article contributes to the research of transitivity and grounding in translation studies. It considers the interrelation of the two scientific traditions defining the means of linguistic and poetic foregrounding in a feature text. Semantic and grammatical characteristics of the text elements coact with rhetoric mechanisms of drawing the reader's attention. Their interconnection should be taken into account in the comparative analysis of a feature text and its translation. The “Theory of Grounding” and the “Saliency Hierarchy” (P. Hopper, S. Thomson, C. Chvany), corresponding to the ideas of Russian linguists (V.V. Vinogradov, G.A. Zolotova, I.V. Arnold), can be applied to the analysis of a popular novel by S. Mayer “Twilight” and its Russian translation. Semantic effects of choosing different aspect forms, finite or non finite forms, active or passive constructions etc. are in the focus of the study together with figures of speech, such as parceling of the text, anaphor and cleft.