Aldous Huxley’s Futuristic World from the Perspective of Its Translation Properties

IF 1 2区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Perspectives-Studies in Translation Theory and Practice Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI:10.46991/tstp/2022.2.1.027

G. Gasparyan, H. Grigoryan

{"title":"Aldous Huxley’s Futuristic World from the Perspective of Its Translation Properties","authors":"G. Gasparyan, H. Grigoryan","doi":"10.46991/tstp/2022.2.1.027","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The article focuses on A. Huxley's famous novel \"Brave New World\" and the two versions of its translation (Russian and Armenian). The aim of the analysis is identification of linguistic means specifying A. Huxley's futuristic world, the so-called World State of the XXVI century (AD 2540), a world, where psychological manipulation predominates as a method of creating a totalitarian society, its dictatorship subjugation and people’s successful standardization. The next step is the determination of communicative/functional properties of the ST and two target texts (Russian and Armenian) in order to reveal how the linguistic manifestation of the author’s worldview is transmitted into a different cultural domain to become cohesive with a different target audience. To transmit exactly A. Huxley’s futuristic world vision into a TL the translator should keep closely to the author’s philosophical conceptualization of this world and the psychological manipulation principles the authorities employ to achieve the expected impact on the fictional society. \n ","PeriodicalId":46466,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives-Studies in Translation Theory and Practice","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Perspectives-Studies in Translation Theory and Practice","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.46991/tstp/2022.2.1.027","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

The article focuses on A. Huxley's famous novel "Brave New World" and the two versions of its translation (Russian and Armenian). The aim of the analysis is identification of linguistic means specifying A. Huxley's futuristic world, the so-called World State of the XXVI century (AD 2540), a world, where psychological manipulation predominates as a method of creating a totalitarian society, its dictatorship subjugation and people’s successful standardization. The next step is the determination of communicative/functional properties of the ST and two target texts (Russian and Armenian) in order to reveal how the linguistic manifestation of the author’s worldview is transmitted into a different cultural domain to become cohesive with a different target audience. To transmit exactly A. Huxley’s futuristic world vision into a TL the translator should keep closely to the author’s philosophical conceptualization of this world and the psychological manipulation principles the authorities employ to achieve the expected impact on the fictional society.

查看原文本刊更多论文

从翻译性质看赫胥黎的《未来世界》

本文主要介绍赫胥黎的著名小说《美丽新世界》及其俄文、亚美尼亚文两种译本。分析的目的是识别语言手段指定a .赫胥黎的未来世界，所谓的世界状态的二十六世纪(公元2540年)，一个世界，心理操纵占主导地位，作为一种方法来创造一个极权主义社会，其独裁统治和人民的成功标准化。下一步是确定原语和两种目标文本(俄语和亚美尼亚语)的交际/功能特性，以揭示作者世界观的语言表现如何传播到不同的文化领域，从而与不同的目标受众形成凝聚力。为了将赫胥黎的未来主义世界观准确地传递到译文中，译者应该密切关注作者对这个世界的哲学概念和当局为达到对虚构社会的预期影响而采用的心理操纵原则。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Perspectives-Studies in Translation Theory and Practice Multiple-

CiteScore

3.30

自引率

7.70%

发文量

期刊介绍： Perspectives: Studies in Translatology encourages studies of all types of interlingual transmission, such as translation, interpreting, subtitling etc. The emphasis lies on analyses of authentic translation work, translation practices, procedures and strategies. Based on real-life examples, studies in the journal place their findings in an international perspective from a practical, theoretical or pedagogical angle in order to address important issues in the craft, the methods and the results of translation studies worldwide. Perspectives: Studies in Translatology is published quarterly, each issue consisting of approximately 80 pages. The language of publication is English although the issues discussed involve all languages and language pairs.