A CORPUS-BASED STUDY ON THE SIMPLIFICATION OF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE TRANSLATION: A CASE STUDY OF THE RUSSIAN VERSIONOF “BRONZE AND SUNFLOWER”

Abstract

Aim of this paper is to test the hypothesis of the tendency of simplification at the lexical and syntactic levels in the translation of children's literature from Chinese into Russian. Methodology. The author examines the trend of simplification of the translated text in four aspects: lexical diversity, lexical density, average length of sentences and logical relations with the help of quantitative, qualitative and comparative analysis. Results. The obtained results clearly indicate that the translated into Russian version of “Bronze and Sunflower” embodies comparable and interlingual simplification. The second finding is that in the translation process, the most commonly used methods for simplifying are the omission of repetitive information, interpretation of cultural information and the replacement of long sentences with short ones. Research implications. The research results contribute to improving the quality of translation through the use of the corpus approach to solving traditional translation problems.