Problem of transformations in translation of English-language national anthems

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Sumy State University

2, Rymskogo-Korsakova Str., Sumy, 40007, Ukraine

Problem of transformations in translation of English-language national anthems

S. Baranova

PhD in Philology, associate professor

O. Rozhenko

student



Annotation

This article deals with the translation aspect of English-language national anthems as texts of ideological discourse. The paper is aimed at analyzing characteristic translation transformations which are performed while translating the national anthems of the USA, Canada, and Ireland into Ukrainian. The aim of the research implies conducting the detailed analysis of the conveyance of the external (rhythm, rhyme) and internal (content, ideological concepts, images) poetic matrix in the Ukrainian translations. The most frequently used lexical-semantic (concretization, modulation, generalization), grammatical (conversion), syntactic (integration, change of word order) transformations are determined. The main ideological concepts (the True North, the Star-Spangled Banner, the soldier's song) of each national anthem are found out; they are completely represented in the Ukrainian poetic translations which function as texts of ideological discourse.

Key words: ideological discourse, anthem, poetic translation, translation transformations, modulation, concretization, generalization.



Анотація

translation english national anthem

Проблема трансформацій у перекладі англомовних державних гімнів

C.В. Баранова, канд. філол. наук, доцент;

О.С. Роженко, студент Сумський державний університет, вул. Римського-Корсакова 2, м. Суми, 40007, Україна

Стаття присвячена дослідженню перекладацького аспекту англомовних державних гімнів як текстів ідеологічного дискурсу. Мета роботи полягає в аналізі характерних трансформацій, які реалізуються в перекладі на українську мову державних гімнів США, Канади, Ірландії. Задля досягнення мети дослідження було проведено детальний аналіз передачі зовнішньої (ритм, рима) і внутрішньої (зміст, концепти, які мають ідеологічну складову, образи) поетичної матриці в українських перекладах. Були виявлені лексико- семантичні (конкретизація, модуляція, генералізація), граматичні (конверсія), синтаксичні (об'єднання, зміна порядку слів) трансформації, які найчастіше використовуються. Визначено основні ідеологічні концепти кожного державного гімну (the True North, the Star-Spangled Banner, the soldier's song), які повністю представлені в українських поетичних перекладах, що функціонують як тексти ідеологічного дискурсу.

Ключові слова: ідеологічний дискурс, гімн, поетичний переклад, перекладацькі трансформації, модуляція, конкретизація, генералізація.



Проблема трансформаций в переводе англоязычных государственных гимнов

C.В. Баранова, канд. филол. наук, доцент;

О.С. Роженко, студент,

Сумский государственный университет,

ул. Римского-Корсакова 2, г. Сумы, 40007, Украина

Аннотация

Статья посвящена исследованию переводческого аспекта англоязычных государственных гимнов как текстов идеологического дискурса. Цель исследования состоит в анализе характерных трансформаций, которые реализуются при переводе на украинский язык государственных гимнов США, Канады, Ирландии. Для достижения цели исследования был осуществлен детальный анализ передачи внешней (ритм, рифма) и внутренней (содержание, концепты, которые имеют идеологическую составляющую, образы) поэтической матрицы в украинских переводах. Были выявлены лексико-семантические (конкретизация, модуляция, генерализация), грамматические (замены), и синтаксические (объединение, смена порядка слов) трансформации, которые используются наиболее часто. Определены основные идеологические концепты каждого государственного гимна (the True North, the Star-Spangled Banner, the soldier's song), они полностью отображены в украинских поэтических переводах, которые функционируют как тексты идеологического дискурса.

Ключевые слова: идеологический дискурс, гимн, поэтический перевод, переводческие трансформации, модуляция, конкретизация, генерализация.



Introduction

Considering the globalization of all the spheres of social life, an increasing number of people throughout the world are learning and using the English language that is considered to be the language of international communication. Although the number of those who speak English is constantly growing, there is a need to provide a process of translation, particularly in the field of international relations, politics, culture, literature. Among linguists and translators there arise questions how to ensure the process of translating a source text so that a recipient should receive the absolute equivalent of the message expressed by means of the native language.

The peculiarity of the national anthem translation is caused by the fact that neither simple semantic nor more literal translation cannot be performed while transcoding this kind of text.

The national anthem as a text of ideological discourse is characterized by the following features: formulation of the idea that is necessary to instill in the minds of the addressees, the image that usually represents this idea implicitly and increased emotionality of the message [1].

One of the peculiarities of the national anthem is a form of its presentation for the recipient. Traditionally, it is a poetic work, the translation of which confronts the translator with a number of challenges and difficulties. The task of maintaining the adequacy of poetic translation is of considerable importance during the translation process.

Hundreds of scientists analyze translated works, consider the transformations used in the translation of literary works, particularly poems, in search of a solution to this issue. So, S.O. Shvachko researched translation transformation in the poetic plane, investigating such works as the song 'The Bells of St Petersburg' by T. Moore and its Ukrainian translation "Evening" performed by I. Shchoholiv, and the poem "The Arrow and the Song" by H. Longfellow and its translation into the Russian language performed by D. Michalowskii [2]; H.A. Boiko carried out a comparative analysis of translations of J.W. Goethe's ballad "Fisherman" performed by Ukrainian poets D. Zahul and M. Tereshchenko, studied the transmission of external (rhythm, rhyme) and internal (content, stylistic devices, concepts) poetic matrix in the process of translation [3]; A.O. Perminova introduced the definition of two translation mechanisms (re-coding and re-creation), conducted a comparative analysis of the 19th and 12th Shakespeare's sonnets and their translations into Ukrainian performed by D. Palamarchuk [4]; K.O. Panasenko studied the problems of the symbols' representation of the poetic text in translation [5], analyzed reproducing symbols of the poem "The Soul Selects Her Own Society" by E. Dickinson on the basis of Ukrainian and Russian translations by V. Kykot and B. Lvov [6].

As we can see, despite the studies of the Ukrainian translations of poetry, analysis of the transformations that are implemented while translating the English-language national anthems [7; 8; 9] as texts of ideological discourse into the Ukrainian language was not made which led to the relevance of the study.

The objective of the research is to study transformations that are performed while translating the English-language national anthems as texts of ideological discourse into Ukrainian.

This objective implies the following tasks of the research:

To analyze the transposition of an external poetic matrix in translated texts

To find out what kind of transformations are used for the translation of national anthems and which of them are the most frequently used

To determine how concepts that have an ideological component are reproduced in the Ukrainian translation

To provide some conclusions regarding the adequacy of poetic translation of the analyzed English-language anthems.

The subject area is Ukrainian poetic translations of the anthems of Canada, the United States of America and Ireland.

The specific topic of the study is translation transformations which are used to implement the ideological discourse in the Ukrainian segment.

This research demanded to use the following methods: method of vocabulary definition - to differentiate between the main types of the translation transformations; analysis and descriptive method - to analyze and describe some of the key transformations that have been applied by translators while translating the national anthems into the Ukrainian language; comparative method - to define the level of representation of the concepts that have an ideological component in the Ukrainian poetic translation.

Results of the research: The first stage of the study consists of the general analysis of transformations in the translation of the anthems of Canada, the USA and Ireland.

The first text under consideration is the Ukrainian translation of the Canadian national anthem, performed by representatives of the Embassy of Ukraine in Canada in 2016 [10].

One should stress that external structure of the translated text differs from the source text: the original consists of ten lines while the target one has only nine lines. The translator managed to retain the masculine type of rhyme in the target text: земля - моя - росте - твердий - хвиль - твій - землі - Тобі - Тобі.

The target text does not have a clear scheme of the position of rhyming lines as the source text itself: the first line rhymes with the second line forming a couplet, the third line forms a crossing rhyme with the sixth one, the eighth and the ninth lines form a refrain.

The metric system of the target text differs quite a bit from the source one: the translator used a two-syllabic iambus, but the number of feet varies from three to five.

The author of the translation managed to preserve a phonetic stylistic device - assonance. Vowel sound /o/ creates a melody in the poetic work, glorifying the native land in such a way.

At the level of lexical transformations, the place name Canada was transliterated into Ukrainian as Канада.

The translator includes the address Коханая земля to compensate the missed third line True patriot love in all thy sons command which represents the idea of sincere filial love to the motherland. The epithet our is transformed into мій, моя with the help of concretization, the word group home and native land is translated as рідний дім і гордосте by means of combination and modulation.

When translating two next lines there was an integral reconsideration of the original. The translator resorts to modulation of With glowing hearts we see thee rise and gets З Тобою враз наш дух росте where the main and secondary parts of sentence undergo a fundamental transformation: we is changed into наш дух, the predicate with the complex object see thee rise are replaced with росте з Тобою, the adverbial modifier of manner with glowing hearts is replaced with a neutral adverbial modifier враз. The address The True North strong and free is replaced in the target text: the comparison мов камінь той, твердий is introduced in which the attributes strong and free is modulated into the attribute твердий.

The word group from far and wide is translated with the concretization, the translator takes into account the geographic position of Canada: від Півночі до моря хвиль. The address O Canada is omitted. The line We stand on guard for thee is translated into Ukrainian by means of modulation, therefore the idea of motherland's protection is presented more specifically, emotionally: Народ Твій - сторож твій!

The polysemantic word keep is rendered as даруй by means of concretization, the word group our land is generalized: цій землі. The attribute glorious is omitted, the epithet free is translated into Ukrainian by means of grammatical change: the adjective is converted into the noun волю.

While translating the couplet the author doesn't use the already made translation of the seventh line, but instead, he concretizes the word group stand on guard and translates it into Ukrainian as присягаємо.

Thus, the translator has resorted to an integral reconsideration of the national anthem of Canada while translating it into the Ukrainian language. The most frequently used lexical- semantic transformations are concretization, modulation; the translator also has used generalization and omission. The level of grammatical transformations is presented by grammatical changes when parts of speech are converted from one into another.

Taking into consideration that fact that the author of the target text has managed to preserve the rhythm of the national anthem, to convey the main concepts and the idea of the anthem as a text of ideological discourse, we can state that we have a faithful poetic Ukrainian translation of the national anthem of Canada.

The next text under consideration is the poetic Ukrainian translation of the national anthem of the United States of America [8].

The external structure of the target text doesn't differ from the source anthem: the target text consists of four equal stanzas. The translator hasn't succeeded to preserve the type of rhyme completely. Like in the source text the second and the fourth lines of each stanza are written with female rhyme, however, it appears in the sixth line of the second, the third, and the fourth stanzas, and in the eighth row of the second and the fourth stanzas, the other lines are rhymed by means of the masculine rhyme: встав - домом - віддає - народом - проста

Бога - віка - свободи.

In the Ukrainian translation the rhyme scheme ababccdd used by the author of the national anthem of the United States can be traced completely only in the first stanza: зірках

зорниці - зорях - з'явиться - освітив - довів - здаля - земля.

Considering the metric system of the translation, it should be noted that the translator has managed to retain the use of the trisyllabic metre - anapest.

Let's consider transformations that are applied during the translation of the first stanza into the Ukrainian language.

In the first line of the target text the translator adds the adverbial modifier of the place на нє6і to focus attention on the flag which symbolizes the supreme strength, power, unity, and steadfastness of the Americans as representatives of the united ideological group. The word groups dawn 's early light and twilight's last gleaming are forming the contextual opposition in the source text, besides the components light and gleaming have the same semantics of "light" which differs qualitatively. The translator resorts to the concretization of these concepts, introducing the seme "star": у горішніх ранкових зірках, на вечірній зорниці.

Trying to omit an emotive component, the lexical-semantic transformation of generalization occurs while conveying the adverbial modifier proudly and predicate hailed: радо вітали.

The integration is used during the translation of the first and the second sentence. At the same time, there is an omission of the source elements through the perilous fight, we watched, gallantly. The translator has performed the lexical-semantic transformation to concretize the word group bright stars, providing it with a more precise attribute: сріблястих зорях. The adverbial modifier of the place o 'er the ramparts is translated via the modulation, at the same time the attribute is added to the generalized concept `ramparts': над ворожими стінами. The third and the fourth complex sentences of the first stanza are integrated in the target text. A lot of transformations are implemented while translating the line the rockets ' red glare, the bombs bursting in air. The attribute red and the participle bursting in air are omitted; these elements are compensated by adding the predicate that is appropriate in this context: ракет сполох та бомб його там освітив.

The line Gave proofthrough the night that our flag was still there was translated by means of permutation, the additional subject він is added and the adverbial modifier of place there is concretized: Та наш стяг був над фортом, і чи він не довів /Що вночі він був там. The address O say and the attribute that star-spangled are omitted, the noun banner is replaced by a synonym він, the adverbial modifier of place здаля is added, the adverbial modifiers of place O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave are rearranged, the adjective free is converted into a noun: що він ріяв здаля /Де хоробрих наш дш, де свободи земля?

Translation transformations that are applied during the transcoding of the second stanza of the national anthem of the USA are as follows.

In the first line the translator has introduced the additional adverbial modifier of place там, added the attribute чужих, replaced the noun shore in singular with a plural form, and transformed the phrase mists of the deep by means of modulation: там, у мглi мовчазтй на чужих берегах. The replaced attribute мовчазтй was omitted while translation of the next line.

In the second line the definite article the is translated via concretization as the attribute наш. The subject host that means "army" is omitted and replaced with a contextual synonym ворог. The object від атак is added; the adverbial modifier of manner in dread silence is omitted and is compensated while translating the previous line: Де тдступний наш ворог від атак спочиває.

The expressiveness of the adverbial modifier of place o'er the towering steep is reduced by use of the functional replacement над фортом. The translator has not preserved the subordinate clause as it fitfully blows in the target text, but instead he adds the subordinate clause як нам: Що над фортом, як нам, також видно йому. The fourth line witnesses the syntactic and lexical-semantic transformations: the order of presentation of homogenous predicates half conceals and half discloses is changed in the sentence, their meanings are concretized: розвивається й знову пропадає.

The main parts of the sentence are changed in the next sentence: the formal subject it which replaces the lexeme banner is changed into схід, and the predicate catches is reconsidered integrally and translated as надає. The translator generalizes the word group morning's first beam and adds the attribute золотий: сонця схід золотий. The adverbial modifier of place in the stream is converted into the subject бриз, thus the homogenous predicate shines, which has correlated with the formal subject it, is changed and consistent with the new subject of the action: бриз розгортає. The word group in full glory is transformed into в повний розмір via modulation. The translator adds the possessive pronoun our to provide greater expressiveness, to underline the affiliation of the flag to "our" ideological group while translating the exclamatory sentence ` Tis the Star-Spangled Banner! At the same time the author of the translation omits the lexical-semantic component spangled: Це наш зоряний стяг!

The exclamatory particle О is omitted in the Ukrainian translation, the adverbial modifier of time long is logically transformed and translated by the adverb завжди, the modal verb may loses the meaning of assumption in the target text, the predicate wave is generalized: I він буде завжди. While translating the last line that is the same in all stanzas the translator does not use the already presented equivalent. The component home of the brave of the adverbial modifier of place is omitted in the translated text. The last sentence of the stanza that is grammatically simple is translated with a complex sentence with a subordinate clause of place, the principal parts of a sentence are added: I він буде завжди, /Де свободи земля його бачити знов зажадає.

The translation transformations of the third stanza of the national anthem of the USA are as follows.

To highlight the "alien" ideological group band the translator adds the attribute убивць with a negative connotation. The demonstrative pronoun that is partially compensated by the presented attribute that is used by the speaker to separate from the subject in the message. The adverbial modifier of manner vauntingly is translated with the adverb зухвало via modulation: А де банда убивць, що зухвало поклялась.

The structure of the sentence is transformed: the homogenous subject havoc of war is converted into the adverbial modifier of manner ніби полум'ям битв, the noun havoc is translated by means of concretization and the noun war is generalized. Another homogenous subject battle 's confusion is omitted, the predicate should leave is replaced by the new main parts of a sentence: банда зробить. The object us is concretized and translated with the noun натовпом, homogenous objects a home and a country are generalized and translated as вах нас, the adverbial modifier of time no more is correlating with the new predicative kernel of the sentence and realized with the antonymous translation знову.

The second sentence of the third stanza is integrated with the first one, the subject and the predicate of the simple sentence blood has washed out are replaced with the elliptical sentence with the predicate, the left out subject банда can be unambiguously inferred from the context. The reason for this grammatical transformation is the absence of the need to focus on the "alien" ideological group. The subject blood is converted into the object кров'ю. The object their foul footsteps' pollution is transformed into an object with a more negative connotation due to modulation: за свої злодіяння знову кров'ю вмивалась.

The predication centre no refuge could save of the third sentence is replaced with a one- member sentence with the predicate не знайти, which is expressed with a verb of imperative mood. However, the subject no refuge is virtually absent in the translated version of the national anthem of the United States, but its meaning is compensated with the object втіхи. The information in the source text is presented in a descriptive, the author separates two ideological groups, but the translator separates them more sharply, introducing the address вам, військ найманих рабам, which is the result of combination and integral reconsideration of homogeneous objects hireling and slave. The object the terror of flight is omitted, but the meaning is partly compensated with the attribute безкінечний. Another homogenous object the gloom of the grave is explained and transformed into a clause which is the part of the asyndetic complex sentences: У могилі вас тлін безкінечний чекає. The noun gloom is translated via modulation as the noun тлін which has a more negative connotation.

The third sentence of this stanza was divided. The adverbial modifier of manner in triumph is omitted in the target text, but it is compensated with the modal particle тільки which emphasizes the superiority, the supremacy of the banner and implicitly of "our" ideological group at the same time. The predication centre the Star-Spangled Banner doth wave is not represented in the target text, but it is transformed: we can observe a one-member sentence with the predicate буде видно. The predicate doth wave witnesses the current action, the translated equivalent indicates the future action. The last line is presented as in the first stanza: Де хоробрих наш дш, де свободи земля.

The translator has made the following transformations while rendering the fourth stanza of the national anthem of the USA.

In the source text the first sentence is an exclamatory, complex sentence with the subordinate clause of condition, it is a declarative, complex sentence with the subordinate clause of place in the target text. The subject freemen is translated via generalization as нескоренний, besides the plural noun is replaced by the singular number of the subject In the first line. The predicate shall stand that is represented by the future tense of the verb in the source text is translated as the verb of the present tense perfective aspect form встав. One can observe a number of transformations while translating the adverbial modifier of place between their loved homes and the war's desolation: the word order of the adverbial modifier's components has changed, the adjective loved was modulated, the noun homes is translated with a singular noun, but the attribute war's expressed by the possessive case of the singular noun has the plural number in the target text: між розрухою війн та своїм рідним домом.

The participle blest with vict'ry and peace is omitted in the second sentence. The modal verb may has the meaning of the request, but the translation is devoid of this modality. The attribute Heaven-rescued is omitted and partially compensated with the object славить Бога. The source text comprises the predicate praise, however, the homogeneous predicate хвалу віддає is added in the target text. One of the homogeneous predicates hath preserved is omitted in the subordinate clause.

The second sentence has a motivating character which is expressed by the modal verb must in the source text while one cannot observe modality and the sentence is declarative in the Ukrainian equivalent. The complex sentence with the subordinate clause of condition is translated as a compound sentence: Переможемо ми, наша справа проста. The meaning of the lexeme just is generalized: наша справа проста. The motto "In God is our Trust" is transformed while translating, the noun Trust has converted into the verb: Ми вірим у Бога.

Logical shift can be observed while translating the last sentence. The predication centre Banner shall wave is transformed into ми пронесем. This is due to the fact that the representatives of the American nation do not separate their existence from the national flag and see themselves as a single whole with it. The attribute Star-Spangled is not translated as зірковий, but as наш, that is because the translator emphasizes the close association of the flag with "our" ideological group. The translator adds the adverbial modifier в віка to make the utterance more expressive, to emphasize the loyalty and patriotism of the American nation.

So, while translating the national anthem of the United States into the Ukrainian language the translator has frequently resorted to lexical-semantic transformations of concretization, modulation, generalization, as well as addition and omission. Among the grammatical transformations grammatical changes are mostly used. At the syntactic level the translator often uses uniting of sentences when a complex sentence is transformed into a complex sentence with a lot of subordinate clauses.

Considering the fact that the external structure (rhyme, rhythm) of the poetic text is retained in general, the main ideas, images and concepts with ideological components are preserved, we can conclude that the translator has managed to make an adequate poetic Ukrainian translation of the anthem of the United States.

The last text under consideration is the author's poetic translation "Soldiers of destiny. The national anthem of Ireland," performed by Artur Sirenko [11].

The author's translation is one of the varieties of linguistic processing of the source text. This kind of translation differs from the traditional translation which is characterized by preserving of stylistic and thematic originality of the source text. The author's poetic translation characterizes by adjustments made by a translator in the source text which alter the structure of the source text, but do not cause the deformation of the concepts presented by the author of the anthem.

The Ukrainian translation corresponds to the first stanza and the chorus of the source text, though the number of lines is different: the stanza consists of seven and the chorus contains eight lines respectively. The author's translation is written exclusively by means of the male rhyme. The author of translation fails to preserve the rhyming scheme. The first and the second lines of the stanza are ring-rhymed with the sixth and the seventh lines respectively, the lines of the chorus are forming couplets. Despite the fact that the national anthem of Ireland is written using iambus, the translator uses a trisyllabic metre with the third stressed syllable - anapest.

Transformations implemented while translating the stanza of the national anthem of Ireland into Ukrainian are as follows.

The stanza of the anthem is the single sentence. The author of the translation retains such a structure of the sentence in the target text, but he fails to preserve the punctuation which logically separates predication centres. One of the objects a song, a soldier 's song is omitted to avoid tautology in the first line, but instead the attribute ірландських is added to define "our" ideological group: Заспіваємо пісню ірландських солдат. The second line including the adverbial modifier of manner with cheering rousing chorus is not translated into Ukrainian, although the concept presented in the word group is compensated in the sixth line of the target text: запальна наша пісня.

The word group our blazing fires is not completely presented in the target text. The attribute blazing is omitted and its meaning is presented by the predicate горять: наші ватри на схилах як зорі горять. The adverbial modifier of place на схилах is added. The fourth line the starry heavens o 'er us is transformed into the comparison як зорі. The predication centre we throng of the third line is translated via modulation and integral reconsideration as ми чекаємо бою containing a more expressive connotation in the target text. The attribute impatient for the coming fight is converted into the predicate with a generalized meaning and the object with the omitted coming: жадаєм на герць. The concept "new day" is presented in the sixth line and as we wait the morning 's light and it is translated by changing the predication centre: ще прийде наш день. The adverbial modifier of time in the silence of the night is transformed via modulation into the simple sentence ніч нам тишу дарує. The predicate chant which denotes "to sing in chorus" is partially compensated by attributes мелодійних, запальна. The author inserts the line доки ніч нам дарує життя, доки ватри горять; concepts implied in it are represented in the national anthem by the words night, blazing fires.

While translating the chorus of the national anthem of Ireland the Ukrainian the poet has performed following transformations.

The name of the country Ireland is translated by the traditionally established equivalent Ірландія. The name of place Erin that is the old Celtic name of Ireland isn't preserved in the target text.

The predicative of the compound nominal predicate soldiers is translated by a plural noun воїни the meaning of which is generalized. The predication centre lives are pledged is transformed into the attribute вірні клятьбі by means of integral reconsideration. The subject expressed by the indefinite pronoun some is generalized and presented as нас. The interpretation of the sentence Some have come /From a land beyond the wave points out that some of the Irish came from over the sea, it means that there are foreigners among them. This idea is concretized in the Ukrainian translation: нас кидало на хвилях. The translator also added the adverbial modifier of place в вогонь боротьби, thus he calls Ireland a region where the war is going on.

The concept implied in the fifth line sworn to be free is represented via the integral reconsideration in the statement подаруємо волю. The object our ancient sire land undergoes a complete transformation: the attribute our and the headword of the phrase land are omitted, the adjective sire is converted into a noun: давніх предків. The adverbial modifier of time no more is partially compensated by the negative particle and the future tense form of the verb не зрадим. The seventh line shall shelter the despot or the slave is translated as скинем владу тиранів - вчорашніх рабів, the predicate shelter and the adverbial modifier no more are replaced by the contextual antonym скинем. The object despot is expanded to владу тиранів by means of modulation, another homogenous object slave with an inserted attribute вчорашніх act as a concretization to the previous one.

The adverbial modifier of time tonight is omitted, the predicate man is generalized, the object gap of danger is concretized in the following sentence of the target text: підем в прірву двобою. The adverbial modifier of purpose in Erin 's cause which implicitly means "for

Ireland, for future " is translated by means of the integral reconsideration as до радісних днів, although these words can compensate the word group come weal. The concept woe is concretized, the homogenous adverbial modifier of place 'mid rifles peal is omitted, the predicate кличем and the object Гелів which denotes the Irish Celts and partially compensates the concept Erin, are added: Кличем Гелів на смерть і під гуркіт гармат. The last declarative sentence We 'll chant a soldier 's song is transformed into the exclamatory one in the target text: Заспівємо пісню ірландських солдат!

Thus, the author's poetic translation of the national anthem of Ireland performed by Arhur Sirenko reflects the general mood and the idea of the anthem as a text of ideological discourse, although it is difficult to observe the translation transformation, implemented by the poet in the target text. The translator has frequently resorted to the permutations of semantic components within phrases, adding and omitting some fragments of the anthem, different types of lexical and grammatical substitutions. Therefore, this translation is unlikely to be an adequate equivalent, but it can be considered as a unique poetic work, which has its author, title, idea, concepts and images, similar to those presented in the source text that compensate the expressiveness of the national anthem and the communicative-functional effect on the recipient.



Conclusions

Thus, the task to preserve the external poetic matrix is quite challenging and it demands high level skills. One can observe the most accurate reproduction of rhyme and rhythm in the Ukrainian translation of the anthem of the USA. Considering the fact that we have analyzed the author's poetic translation of the Irish anthem, the external poetic matrix of this Ukrainian translation does not correspond to the source text to a greater extent.

The most frequently used lexical-semantic transformations are concretization, generalization, modulation, however translators also implement additions, omissions and integral reconstruction. The grammatical level of transformations is presented by conversion mostly. Integration as a transformation of the syntactic level is presented in the translation of the US anthem.

The main ideological concepts of each anthem (the True North, the Star-Spangled Banner, the soldier's song) are preserved in the Ukrainian translations and they are translated as Північ, наш зоряний стяг, пісня ірландських солдат (`the North', `our starry banner', `the Irish soldier's song ') respectively.

The adequate translation is characterized by the conveyance of both conscious and implicit intentions of the author, the ideological and emotional impact on a recipient of the message, the preservation of images, peculiarities, rhythm of the source text with the help of accurate equivalents or adequate substitutes. One cannot but mention that a translator has to resort to various kinds of compensations, replacements and substitutions, choosing the less essential points of the text while translating the English-language national anthems.



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