Cognitive aspect of phraseological units translation

Bashkirova K., Gatiyatullina L., Guryanov I.

Translation of phraseological units has always presented a certain difficulty for translators. First of all, this is due to expressive and emotionally brightly coloured phrases that relate to a specific style of speech and most often carry the national features of certain cultures. Secondly, the rethought and metaphorical images of phraseological units require the translator to know not only the lexical fund of the language, but also knowledge of certain extralinguistic factors. In this study, the authors set the task to find out how phraseological units’ complicate translation. With the help of the Translog II software, an experiment was carried out among 30 second-year students of the Kazan Federal University, studying in the specialty “Philology. Translation studies ". Students were divided into two groups: control and experimental, 15 people each. Both groups were given the task of translating 5 sentences from English into Russian. In the control group, the subjects translated sentences without phraseological units, in the experimental group the same sentences were modified using phraseological units. The analysis of the results of the experiment allowed the authors to reveal how the phraseological units increase the time spent on the translation of sentences.

Keywords:phraseological unit, translation, cognitive linguistics, translog, experiment.