Specifics of Translation Rendering of Concept JUSTICE / СПРАВЕДЛВІСТЬ in Ukrainian Translations of English International Legal Discourse
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https://doi.org/10.31548/philolog2022.02.004Abstract
The article focuses on the study of the translation reproduction of the concept of JUSTICE / СПРАВЕДЛВІСТЬ in Ukrainian translations of international legal documents. The aim of the article is to identify translation transformations that are used to reproduce the structural and conceptual features of the concept under consideration and can influence the de-intensification of the semantic relationship between the concept JUSTICE / СПРАВЕДЛВІСТЬ and its structural components in the original English text and its Ukrainian translation. To solve the goal, the method of comparative translation analysis has been used in combination with contextual-interpretive analysis. The article reached the following main results. During the reproduction of structural and conceptual features of the concept of JUSTICE / СПРАВЕДЛВІСТЬ in Ukrainian translations of English-language documents of international law, the translator used the following basic translation transformations: syntactic transformations of substituting verbal adverb phrase by subordinate clauses, transformations of addition, omission and change of word order; modulation transformations; grammatical transformations - part of speech re-categorization of noun to adjective and noun to pronoun; replacement of the active voice in the original text with the passive voice in the text of the Ukrainian translation. Some translation transformations can weaken the relationship between the concept of JUSTICE / СПРАВЕДЛВІСТЬ and its conceptual features. In particular, the use of syntactic transformations may result in the rupture of the synonymous row, which designates the cognitive features of the concept and thus de-intensify the connection between these features and the concept of JUSTICE / СПРАВЕДЛВІСТЬ. Weakening of this connection is also facilitated by the transformation of omission and addition - if they structurally "distance" (at the level of connotative meaning) nominative units with the seme "justice" from their normative and semantic definition, as well as grammatical transformation of substitution active voice into passive.References
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