REALIA IN STEVEN KING’S NOVEL “THE OUTSIDER”: TRANSLATION ASPECT

Abstract

The article focuses on the ways of reconstitution realia in Stephen King’s novel “The Outsider” and analysis of its translation into Ukrainian. Translation is an important aspect of human life and intercultural activity. Translation of interlingual realia is one of the most complicated sections of translation studies, because such words and phrases define objects, concepts, phenomena that have no direct equivalents in the target language. Therefore, the translator’s activity should be aimed at overcoming the linguistic and ethnic barrier in order to understand this version of the target language by native speaker of the culture, national psychology of the source languages. One of the most important conditions for the appropriate formation of realia is their deep knowledge. When a translator has a correct notion about realia and its contextual use, it is easier for him to find an adequate equivalent of implementation in translations. Translators need to be perfectly aware of the system of methods of reproducing realia, which are described in the translation literature. In order to suggest variant of a new translation’s version to be quite successful, the choice of ways to translate the words of realia plays a substantial role. The demand for adequate translation is due to the fact that success in this activity is possible only with the use of lexical and grammatical transformations, because vocabulary equivalents cannot always correctly reflect the realia in translation. S. King’s novel “The Outsider” (published in 2018) is full of a significant number of realia, which was subjected to detailed analysis in order to achieve a successful translation of the target language. The Ukrainian version of this work was introduced by the Kharkiv publishing house Book Club “Family Leisure Club” (KDS). The translation was done by Anastasia Rogoza, who is familiar to readers with translations of the novels “The silence of the Lambs”, “Hannibal” by Thomas Harris and other works by Stephen King. She is a well-known specialist, her works are considered highly qualified, which gives grounds to point out that the variants of translation realia are successful. Transcoding and calquing are the most productive ones, while descriptive translation and hypero-hyponimic substitution – less productive.