ANALYTICAL AND ATTRIBUTIVE CONSTRUCTIONS AS IMPORTANT SYNTACTIC-STYLISTIC MEANS OF ANDREY PLATONOV’S IDIOSTYLE AND THEIR TRANSLATION INTO ENGLISH

DOI: 10.24412/2470-1262-2024-3-5-15

Abstract: When considering Andrei Platonov’s language at the syntactic level, a pattern can be traced associated with the purely Platonov’s use of various syntactic constructions, acting as individual author’s syntactic means of increasing linguistic expressiveness. The syntax of speech of Platonov’s characters is characterized by using personal, generalized personal and impersonal constructions. Platonov achieves the multidimensional associativity of a phrase not only through the stylistically traditional use of such syntactic means as inversion, parcellation, elliptical constructions, turns, anaphora, anticipation, but also through the specific Platonov’s use of analytical and attributive constructions. As a result of these author’s semantic-syntactic transformations, new meaning-making syntactic formations, enriched with many connotations, are obtained that have arisen contrary to linguistic norms. This, in turn, poses the problem of transmitting the entire range of stylistic and semantic features of the author’s mostly non-conventional intratextual elements when translating Platonov’s text into a foreign language.

Keywords: Andrei Platonov’s idiostyle, translation strategy, foreignization, analytism and synthetism, synthetic forms, analytical and attributive constructions, the method of semantic shift, hidden predicativity, the shift of the attribute value into neighboring semantic zones, occasional formations, linguacultural adaptation, substitution of equivalent, ideological clichés, Utopia, Anti-Utopia/ Dystopia, Novoyaz, quasi-language of Utopia, the literary collision of Utopia and Anti-Utopia, allegoricality, duality, implicativity of Platonov’s text, literary translation as intercultural project

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For citation: Bouilov Vassili V. (2024). Analytical and Attributive Constructions as Important Syntactic and Stylistic Means of Andrei Platonov’s Idiostyle and their Translation into English.

Cross-Cultural Studies: Education and Science, Vol. 9, Issue 3 (2024), pp. 5-15 (in USA)

Manuscript received 21/10/2024 

Accepted for publication: 24/11/2024