Expression o f modal meaning o f reliability in N.V. Gogol’s
poem „Dead Souls” and in its English translations Cover Image

Способы выражения модального значения достоверности в поэме Н.В. Гоголя Мертвые души и в ее английских переводах
Expression o f modal meaning o f reliability in N.V. Gogol’s poem „Dead Souls” and in its English translations

Author(s): Svetlana Vaulina, Larysa Kokovina
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Translation Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: category of modality; modality of reliability; categoric and problematic reliability; fiction; comparative analysis; inter-language equivalence;

Summary/Abstract: Based on the original text of Nikolai Gogol’s poem and its two English translations, the article examines the means of expression of specialized meanings of the invariant modal meaningof reliability - categorical and problematic reliability; establishes the degree of the inter-language semantic equivalence of these means, promoting the adequate perception of the author’s intentions in the English translations of the poem.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: XVIII
  • Page Range: 207-215
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Russian