Variable translation of ritual dialogues in fiction
https://doi.org/10.17021/2712-9519-2025-4-96-103
Abstract
The article deals with the problem of the translation of a quasi-dialogue, which is essential for the plot of the short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “The Musgrave Ritual” into the Russian language. We have analyzed nine translations, made throughout the XXth and early XXIst centuries. We have shown, that despite the brevity of question-answer utterances, their translation varies, excepting cases, when the translation was borrowed, or when any transformation would have led to an inadequacy of translation, the cases of which have also been noted. Beside literal translation, various grammar substitutions, as well as additions or omissions had been resorted to. Translations mostly differ in word order and the choice of this or that variable equivalent
About the Author
A. A. Streltsov
Southern Federal University
Россия
Россия
Streltsov Aleksey Aleksandrovitch - candidate of pedagogics, associate professor, associate professor of
the Department of Translation and Information Technologies in Linguistics
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Streltsov A.A. Variable translation of ritual dialogues in fiction. Linguistics & education. 2025;5(4):96-103. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.17021/2712-9519-2025-4-96-103
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