Demetska V. Theory of Translational Adaptation.

The dissertation sets out to prove the theory of translational adaptation. This is the first substantial study devoted to the description of adaptation as one of the basic notions in translation studies and its fundamental concepts. The research suggests the linguistic, cultural, and methodological reasons for applying the translational adaptation to pragmatic texts. The comprehensive analysis of the "adaptation" as a notion represents the hierarchy of the typological structural, functional, cognitive, and comparative methods of discourse / text analysis. An adaptive potential of discourse / text is defined within the framework of intralinguistic and interlinguistic comparison of pragmatic texts of political and religious discourses, which grounds the adaptive translational models of pragmatic texts under analysis. Adaptation as one of the linguistic types of mediation is regarded by the majority of researchers as the extreme degree of transformations admissible in translation.