Ethnolinguistic Lacunae in Translation into Chinese of Novel by G. Sh. Yakhina “Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes”

The problem of linguocultural lacunarity in literary translation is considered. The novelty of the study lies in the fact that for the first time ethnolinguistic lacunae, represented by Turkic ethnographisms, are studied in the text of the original novel by G. Sh. Yakhina (2015) and its translation into Chinese by Zhang Jie and Xie Yuncai (2017). The material was the Turkisms of the novel by G. Sh. Yakhina “Zuleikha opens her eyes”, commented by the author in the appendix “Dictionary of Tatar words and expressions”. The article discusses the ethno-linguistic approach to the study of Turkisms (Albasty, Kaplau, Shurale, etc.), which includes: analysis of the etymology of the word, its linguo-ethnic status, functonal specificity, background information. It is proved that ethnolinguistic lacunarity is manifested not only through the extralinguistic component of the word and its national and cultural marking. The proposition is substantiated that the conjugation of the linguocultural Tatar-Russian contact is lacunar, which is “read” in the original text, but not in its translation. It is proved that the main way to eliminate lacunae is compensation, which allows to most fully recreate the ethnolinguistic specificity of reality. It is established that the methods of explication and generalization are frequent, which contribute to the preservation of the ethnolinguistic originality of the work.

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