Expressive and stylistic aspects of translating national literature through an intermediary language: the case of translating a Kazakh story into the Yakut language

This article examines the artistic translation of the Russian text of the story “Political Action” by the Kazakh writer A. Askarov into the Yakut language, carried out by the Yakut writer and translator V.N. Lukovtsev. In the course of the study, the characteristics of the text in Russian were carried out as an intermediary text, acting as a link in intercultural interaction; ways of preserving the national coloring of the Kazakh culture were considered; as well as the equivalence of the transfer of expressive and stylistic aspects when translating the story into the Yakut language with the participation of the Russian language as an intermediary language. The purpose of the study is to analyze the expressive and stylistic aspects of the translation of national literature into the Yakut language through the participation of an intermediary language (Russian). The Yakut language differs significantly from other Turkic languages, therefore the Russian language for the Sakha people is the language of interethnic communication between the Turkicspeaking peoples. The relevance of the article is due to the insufficient development of the problem of translating stylistic devices of related literatures and understanding of national stylistics in translation. To identify the transfer of national coloring to the Yakut language, interjections, addresses, phraseological units were used as examples. The analysis demonstrates that when translating, it is possible to achieve that humorous, satirical effect of the original text, which consists in the author’s composed use of turns of official business speech, cliched combinations of journalism, colloquial vocabulary, phraseological units and artistic and visual means of language. As a result, it was revealed that the Yakut text acquired a satirical content adequate to the original text with the effect of humor and irony. The translation strategy, focused on conveying the individual style of the author of the work, forces the translator to choose a syntax as close as possible to the syntax of the translation language.