PRAGMATIC ADAPTATION IN TRANSLATION AS A WAY TO OVERCOME LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL BARRIER
The article deals with the issue of pragmatic adaptation while translating a literary text. The author studies the ways of text adaptation to the recipient’s comprehension in cases when specific linguistic and cultural phenomena are under translation. The analysis of translational failures is provided and the conclusion is made that the way to avoid them is to possess broad extralinguistic knowledge which is the basis of the translator’s competence.