FRACTAL PROPERTIES OF VERBS OF MOTION IN ORIGINAL AND TRANSLATED LITERARY TEXTS
The authors of the article considered the problem of types of verbs of motion in the aspect of the fractal theory. Since the methods of fractal geometry are widely used in various branches of science, the ability to apply them is necessary for the modern researcher, especially in the sphere of linguistics. The use of the fractal theory in this work enables not only inclusion of the idea of L. Talmy about division of languages into verb-framed and satellite-framed languages into consideration of the problem, but also supplementing of this classification with a new class of languages, the so-called “verb and satellite framed” ones. The authors proved that English and Russian belong to different types of languages in terms of L. Talmy’s classification. As the material of the study, the story “Ionych” (1898) written by A. Chekhov and its translation into English made by K. Garnett (1916) were used. The use of verbs of motion representing dynamics or statics was observed in the literary text. The authors attempted to show that the translator should take into account some fractal properties of verbs of motion, such as self-similarity, fractal dimension, uneven surface, scalar relativity for the proper text translation. The authors proved that these fractal properties should not be neglected in the process of translation from Russian into English. The analysis of verbs of motion based on the fractal theory could improve the quality of literary texts translation.