Журнал «Филоlogos»

STRATEGIES OF DOMESTICATION AND FORENIZATION IN THE TRANSLATIONS OF ALICE IN WONDERLAND BY L. CARROLL

Author: Matveeva N.V., Zhigalova Ya.I.

The purpose of this article is to identify and analyze translation strategies of domestication and forenization in the translation of Lewis Carroll's fairy tale "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" into Russian. These strategies are a distinctive feature of the translation of a literary text, which distinguish it from the translation of other types of texts. These strategies are primarily related to the transfer of the emotional meaning of the text and the context. For a translator, the main task is to convey the features of the original text in translation; therefore, for an adequate literary translation the translator uses not only certain linguistic means, but also certain translation strategies. The article discusses the strategies of domestication and forenization, first considered by the American theorist L. Venuti. A domestication strategy is understood as a translation strategy in which the translation text adapts to the target language as much as possible. That is, the text looks familiar to the recipient, and foreign culture does not interfere with understanding the meaning of the work. In our research, we attributed such transformations and techniques as concretization, generalization, modulation, explication, compensation, contextual substitution, omission, adaptation to the strategy of domestication. The concept of a strategy of forenization is understood as the preservation of elements of the realities of the source language in translation, which violates the phenomena familiar to the culture of the recipient's language. This approach inevitably immerses the reader in an environment unfamiliar to him, where he definitely feels cultural and linguistic differences. The same fragment acquires a different character for each translator due to the peculiarities of forenization. As for the forenization strategy, it includes transcription, transliteration, calcification, and literal translation. Having analyzed the work in the translations by Nina Demurova and Boris Zakhoder from the point of view of the above-mentioned strategies, we summarize that these performers tend to domestication whereas Vladimir Nabokov, although he uses enough techniques related to domestication, in general tends more to forenization.

Key words:
strategy; translation; domestication; forenization; Lewis Carroll's fairy tale "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"