Translation of Vladimir Vysotsky's ballad of love into English in the context of genre continuity

the article provides a brief overview of the development of the lyroepic folklore genre of ballads in literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Modern translations of V.S. Vysotsky's ballad into English, performed by Sergey Roy and Vadim Astrakhan, are considered as different types of interlanguage correlates of the original text: correlate-analog, correlate-variant and correlate-equivalent; signs of equivalent translation. The lexico-semantic and stylistic analysis of partial and complete inconsistencies between the translation of stylistic means of expression used in describing key images of "love", "time", "breath" and "wind", elements of the original text (metaphors, phraseological units, etc.) is carried out. The results of the conducted practical research and statistical analysis show that translators mainly use such translation strategies as generalization, synonymous translation, descriptive translation, and calculus) – these techniques are partial correspondences of lexical units of the original text; it has been established that complete inconsistencies between Russian and English equivalents are observed when translators use techniques of omission or "addition"), and full correspondences are recorded during the national and cultural adaptation of the original text to the translation text. The research materials can be used in the development of special courses on the stylistics of the English language, theory and practice of translation from Russian into English.

ballad, translation, concept, love, poetry, correlate, image