THE PROBLEM OF STYLISTICS ADEQUACY FOR RUSSIAN LITERARY TRANSLATIONS (on the base of historical novels written by W. Scott)
This article is devoted to the problem of stylistic equivalence which is one of the most important problems today. Literary text is an important means of intercultural communication. It belongs to two different cultures - the culture of original text and the culture of recipient. It is essential to transmit stylistic peculiarities of the original text, its pragmatic potential (communicative effect). In our article we investigate the problem of stylistic adequacy from the pragmatic point of view. We study this problem on the base of Russian translations of the historical novels written by W. Scott. The purpose of our article is to find out which stylistic resources of Russian language are able to provide the equivalence between original texts and their Russian versions.