EQUIVALENCE AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL QUALITY OF TRANSLATION
In search of a consistent psycholinguistic approach to translation as an interdisciplinary study object, the author seeks to adapt appropriate interpretive terms for analyzing translation as a specific type of speech activity. To that end, the article revises the concept of equivalence, one of the key terms of translation studies. A study of traditional definitions of equivalence revealed the term's essential connection with the concept of an invariant, allowing the author to relate equivalence to A. A. Leontiev's theory of speech activity. Further, a new definition of equivalence is set forth, based on the methodological categories of the theory of speech activity and presenting the notion not as an abstract parameter, but as a psychological quality of translation.