OLD CHURCH SLAVONIC APOSTLE TRANSLATION VOCABULARY: IN SEARCH OF FORM AND SENSE
The article focuses on translation techniques in Old Church Slavonic Acts and Epistles in order to explore a semantic basis of the text interpretation. Readings of archaic manuscripts uniting the oldest Cyrillo-Methodian tradition with Preslav changes are being compared to those of Chudov and Athos redactions. It is found out that all techniques, peculiar to Old Slavonic literature, are detected in various versions of Apostle: borrowing, calquing, searching for an equivalent. The latter frequently makes translation phemonena to appear. That means a correlation between according units / fragments of original text and translation, wherein a certain mismatch of expressive means occurs. There are four main tendencies of variation to be spoken of: a choice between different lexical stems in structural calques; between a calque and an equivalent; between a loan word and an equivalent; between various equivalents. The manuscripts representing the archaic group demonstrate free interpretation of the original text, which causes supplying and substituting translation phenomena, whereas Athos redaction prefers calquing of word structure and semantics. In some cases interpreters « inventions favouring independent meanings survive centuries, and get incorporated in printed versions.