The problem of pragmatics in poetic translation

Abstract

The subject of the study in the article is the pragmatic aspect of poetic translation. The object of the study is the translations of A. Pushkin's poem "Ruslan and Lyudmila" into French. The aim of the work is to determine the pragmatic content of the poetic work in the Russian language and the ways of conveying it in French. From a functional point of view, a poetic text is a segment of speech organized according to line structure, rhyme, meter, and rhythm, and as a segment of speech, it carries a message addressed by the author to the recipients. However, communication in poetry between the author and the reader has a rather conditional nature, as the content in such a work reflects the author's subjective attitude towards the informative layer of the text itself. Emotional-aesthetic information, which is the main component of the poetic text, represents a combination of all parameters in a concentrated form. As a result of applying methods such as complete sampling and comparative analysis, changes in the transmission of the pragmatics of the original text have been identified. Between the author and the recipient, the translator acts as an intermediary in the recoding of the original meanings of the text, on whom the adequacy of the transmission of the original text into another language depends. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that the pragmatic content of the poem forms a cohesive whole with the text and is examined through national-cultural realities, irony, and the author's self-irony, as well as through the metric organization of the text. The pragmatic aspect of the text in poetic translation expresses the relationship to sign systems, the relationship of which is very important for conveying all nuances of content from one language to another. A feature of poetic language is that, in addition to specific lexical means and syntactic constructions, the poetic form used to organize the text holds significant importance. As a result of the study of the translations of A. Pushkin's poem "Ruslan and Lyudmila," deviations of varying degrees from the pragmatic potential of the original text have been noted, depending on the methods of translational transformations.