poetic text

The article examines theoretical and practical aspects of translation studies: the adequacy of poetic texts translation within the language pair “Russian – German” using the example of A. S. Pushkin’s novel Eugene Onegin translation. The paper describes the main difficulties in translating poetic texts: the need for adequate conversion of both the content and the artistic form, the heterogeneity of the source and target languages, as well as the cultural and linguistic space considerations, especially with regard to texts from past eras.

In the article the distinct characteristics of poetic dialogue are highlighted, such as its being synsemantic, its being addressed, etc; such types of dialogue are defined as intratextual and extratextual.

The lexical and syntactic elements of colloquial speech in the poetic text are singled out as features of the stylization of living speech in the lyrics of A. Akhmatova.

The monograph under review deals with the issue of the typology of lyrical texts. The researcher focuses on the category of the lyrical plot. The author combines the linguo-poetic approach to text analysis and the advantageous ideas of conceptology, linguosynergy, discourse studies, which renders the research an interdisciplinary character.

The article considers the directed interaction of different-code semiotic systems – verbal and pictorial (iconic), where the pictorial semiotic system is primary and is the basis for the secondary verbal system – poetic texts. It is argued that the phenomenon of poetic ‘translation’ and verbal actualization of painting is created while preserving a common cultural and moral code for both systems.