PARADIGMATIC ORGANIZATION OF A SOURCE TEXT AND TARGET TEXT

Abstract

Developing the apparatus for estimation a quality of translation is an actual problem of modern linguistics, because of the growing number of translating literature and the necessity of determination what a good translation is in the terms of linguistics. The article discusses the paradigmatic organization of the source text and target text in terms of evaluating translation quality. Paradigmatic organization analysis claims to present a model of text perception. In the course of text understanding, the recipient moves from textual syntagmatics (words are lined up in the text) to mental paradigmatics («subject» images are linked according to the laws of logic and associations). Text understanding depends on paradigms’ characteristics and the interparadigmatic links. There is a hypothesis that similarities and differences between source and target texts paradigmatic organizations may be used for evaluation of translating quality. The analysis of the text paradigmatic organization includes individual paradigms distinguishing; characterization of the composition, functions, mode of expression and configuration of paradigms and interparadigmatic relationships. The analysis is based on Joseph Brodsky poem «Ниоткуда с любовью, надцатого мартобря» and two of its translations: Daniel Weisbort translation «From nowhere with love, Marchember the enth» and autotranslation «From nowhere with love the enth of Marchember sir». These translations were chosen because of the exceptional quality noted by many researchers. The author was co-creator of the first translation and made the second on his own. However, there are significant differences in the paradigmatic organization of these works due to the theoretical views of translators, features of the original and target languages on the one hand, and on the other individual properties, which strengthened the role of individual paradigms in the text. Analysis of the paradigmatic organization of the text as a model of text perception provides ample opportunities for further use for comparative analysis not only of the source text and target text, but also for the analysis of idiosyncrasies, works of different directions, etc.