BINOMINALS IN DER SANDMANN BY E. T. A. HOFFMANN AND ITS TRANSLATIONS INTO LATVIAN, ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN
BINOMINALS IN DER SANDMANN BY E. T. A. HOFFMANN AND ITS TRANSLATIONS INTO LATVIAN, ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN

Summary/Abstract: The famous work Der Sandmann by Hoffmann abounds with binominal phraseological combinations, which represent a special type of phraseological units, e.g. ‘in Saus und Braus’, ‘kurz und gut’, etc. The present article discusses the formal and semantic aspects of binominals, analyses the binominals in Der Sandmann and their role in Hoffmann’s literary framework, and provides an overview of various translation and compensation techniques employed in the translation of the story into Latvian, English and Russian. The research stresses the importance of preserving the paired structure of binominals and the role of the translator as a cross-cultural communicator.

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