Authors
- Semenov Arkady L. D. Sc. (Philology), Professor
- Sakurai Mai
Annotation
The paper focuses on the analysis of the specifics of hieroglyph in representation of semantic connotations in the Japanese novel. A comparative analysis of the original
text of Yukio Mishima’s novel «Kinjiki» (hieroglyphs) and three translations into English and Russian (2 translations from Japanese into Russian and from English into Russian) has been carried out. Contrastive and comparative analysis was used as the methods in linguistics of translation studies. The author analyses fiction translation in terms of the specifics of hieroglyphic writing. Hieroglyphs in Japanese, unlike the letters of the alphabet, have their own meaning and they are capable of convey a certain meaning. Besides, they have a certain graphic image connected with the reality. Literary analysis of two translations of the same novel from Japanese into Russian has demonstrated and proved the essential necessity to understand the semantic composition of a character to choose an adequate translation equivalent which will contribute to creating an artistic image. Hieroglyphs can be as synonymous as the words they are part of. Most Japanese hieroglyphs are the complex characters and they are composites of more simple key characters — radicals. The meaning of a hieroglyph is not always a sum of the meanings of radicals which are the parts of a hieroglyph.
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Semenov, A. L. & Sakurai, M. . (2024). JAPANESE-RUSSIAN FICTION TRANSLATION: HIEROGLYPHIC WRITING Bulletin of the Moscow City Pedagogical University. Series "Pedagogy and Psychology", 4 (56), 135. https://doi.org/10.24412/2076-913X-2024-456-135-144
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