LINGUOCULTURAL IMPLICIT CONTEXT AND MEANS OF ITS EXPRESSION IN THE TRANSLATION OF J. K. ROWLING’S NOVEL „HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE”

Abstract

The article examines the concept of implicit context and means of its expression and examines how the translator conveys it in the Ukrainian language. The implicit context is well known to the reader and makes the work easier to understand. The research material was Viktor Morozov’s translation of J. K. Rowling’s novel "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone". Implicit context is conveyed through the translational strategies of domestication and alienation. The strategy of domestication manifests itself when the target language uses culturally or socially marked linguistic units that are specific to the target language. The alienation strategy consists of using in the translation language units with a meaning or sound that are characteristic of the original language, or those language units that are the result of artistic imagination and exist only in this work. It was found that the translator uses the strategy of domestication more often than the strategy of alienation.

The analysis of the implicitness of the text is carried out at the level of words with a general meaning, proper names, phraseological units, idioms, exclamations-sounds, exclamations-words and exclamations-sentences, author’s neologisms, profanities, dialectisms and slang. In the process of research, groups of researched words were identified and their translational analysis was carried out. It was found that trascoding is mostly used when translating proper names, translation transformation of generalization – when translating lexical units to denote food and clothing, synonymous translation – when translating lexical units to denote household items, equivalent translation – when translating phrases, some profanities and exclamations, a similar analog is searched for when translating idioms, other profanities and exclamations. When translating English-language dialectisms, Viktor Morozov used dialects of the Ukrainian language that are specific to certain regions of Ukraine. Slang in translation appears through the transformation of addition. For translation researchers, the variety of language units used by Viktor Morozov to convey the implicit context is interesting.