Nataliya Yu. Dubnevych, dubnevychny@lnup.edu.ua
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0210-9443
Senior lecturer
Lviv National Environmental University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/StudLing2024.25.57-71
ABSTRACT
The article examines Ray Bradbury’s unique literary voice through his novel Dandelion Wine and focuses on analysing the recreation of expressive syntax in the translation done by V. Mytrofanov. The theoretical basis from Ukrainian and foreign scholars in translation studies, stylistics, and linguistics served as a framework for employing contrastive analysis, statistical evaluation, and descriptive methods to assess the adequacy of translation in preserving Ray Bradbury’s hypersyntax. The article reveals the results of the research involving 585 examples of syntactical stylistic devices, investigates their functioning and the regularities and peculiarities of their recreation, and presents a statistical analysis based on device classification. The paper’s novelty lies in identifying stylistic peculiarities of R. Bradbury’s literary expressiveness, tracing relevant components of the text, and recreating them, which is crucially important for adequate translation. The research findings contribute to translation studies, contrastive syntax, and stylistics, offering insights for further research into stylistic devices at the level of sentence, paragraph, or stylistic whole, as well as a basis for looking at expressiveness as a systemic phenomenon. This research highlights the intricacies of Bradbury’s prose and sheds light on translation strategies for tackling stylistic nuances, ultimately enriching the discourse on literary translation and stylistic analysis.
Keywords: Ray Bradbury, expressive syntax, stylistic devices, repetition, contrastive analysis, stylistics.
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