CONTEXT AS A FACTOR IN SHAPING TRANSLATION DECISIONS IN NOVEL “JANE EYRE” BY CHARLOTTE BRONTË TRANSLATION

Abstract

The article sets out to provide the context influence due to the translation decisions in the literary translation of Charlotte Brontë’s novel “Jane Eyre”. The topicality of this research is determined by the importance of studying the role, types and the impact of the source text context on the target literary text translation. The relevance of the study is determined by the growing interest in contemporary translation studies in the challenges of interpreting literary texts and the need for a detailed analysis of the factors that determine the choice of translation strategies. The focus is payed attention on linguistic, situational, social, cultural, and intertextual contexts as interrelated elements that influence the accuracy of the text rendering in the target language. The study is based on Charlotte Brontë’s novel “Jane Eyre” and its Ukrainian translation done by Petro Sokolovsky. The analysis reveals that different types of context influence the choice of linguistic equivalents in various ways, particularly with regard to preserving pragmatic potential, stylistic features, and the author’s intention. The findings confirmed context impact not only the translation of particular speech constructions, but it also affects the perception of storyline, focalization, character development as well as the interaction between narrator and reader. It was found that rendering the contextual components in the literary work requires the comprehensive application of translation transformations, the most common of which are lexical, grammatical, lexical-grammatical and lexical-semantic. The results of the study proves that context is one of the key factors in shaping translation decisions and ensures the adequacy of literary translation. The findings can be used in future research in the field of translation studies and in the training of future professional translators