TRANSLATION FOR CHILDREN: COMPLEX FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
The article focuses on the functional complex of linguistic and compositional devices applied by the translator addressing Russian children audience. The material for the comparative research is the translation of “Mary Poppins” made by B. Zakhoder, the original book by P. Travers and, in some parts, the translation offered by M. Litvinova. Pragmatic connections are revealed between such devices of B. Zakhoder as preferring of finite verb forms to non-finite ones in narration, adding deictic indices and words denoting perception for colourful descriptions and visual comparisons, preferring direct speech to the indirect one, using the appellation to the reader in singular form, inserting special “storyteller” formulas and Russian idioms. These various devices, traditionally studied within different spheres of word-formation, morphology, syntax, stylistics and composition, should be revealed and analyzed together as parts of the whole functional complex of the translator’s arsenal in this particular text.