PROBLEMS OF RENDERING FIGURATIVE UNITS IN LITERARY TRANSLATION

This article examines the lexical-semantic, stylistic, pragmatic, and linguocultural problems associated with rendering figurative units in literary translation. The ways of translating metaphor, simile, epithet, metonymy, personification, phraseological units, and culture-specific images are comparatively analysed on the basis of English and Uzbek material. The study argues that a figurative unit should not be reproduced through simple lexical substitution alone; rather, its core image, emotional and expressive value, textual function, and pragmatic effect on the reader must be taken into account. Issues of equivalence, adequacy, compensation, transformation, functional correspondence, and cultural adaptation are discussed, and the translator’s creative decision-making is shown to be one of the principal factors determining the quality of literary translation.