STRATEGIES FOR RENDERING CONNOTATIVE MEANING IN ENGLISH–UZBEK LITERARY TRANSLATION
Keywords:
connotative meaning, literary translation, cultural script, compensation, amelioration, pejoration, lacuna, equivalence.Abstract
This paper addresses the strategies used to render connotative meaning in English–Uzbek literary translation. Applying A. Wierzbicka’s theory of cultural scripts and P. Newmark’s classification of translation procedures, the study identifies three recurrent sources of connotative loss — deletion of untranslated imagery, evaluative shift (amelioration/pejoration) and culture-specific lacunae — and the compensatory strategies (compensation, contextual adaptation, equivalence, modification, explanatory translation, functional substitution, cultural adaptation) available to counter them. The analysis draws on parallel English–Uzbek examples from K. Hosseini’s “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, O. Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” and J. Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”.
