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Bondar O.A., Plastinina N.A. [Cognitive potential of precedent phenomena in the comic and ironic intention of understatement: problems of translation] World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies, 2020, Vol. 11, No. 4. Available at: https://sfk-mn.ru/PDF/17FLSK420.pdf (in Russian).

Cognitive potential of precedent phenomena in the comic and ironic intention of understatement: problems of translation

Bondar Olga Alexandronva
Nizhnevartovsk state university, Nizhnevartovsk, Russia
E-mail: bondar.ol@bk.ru
РИНЦ: https://www.elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?id=1051319

Plastinina Nina Anatol’evna
Nizhnevartovsk state university, Nizhnevartovsk, Russia
E-mail: nina.plastinina2011@yandex.ru
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7658-890Х
РИНЦ: https://www.elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?id=788480

Abstract. The article is devoted to the study of precedents as phenomena with the cognitive potential to create hidden and ironic intentions. These phenomena help to achieve a humorous effect. The authors also consider the use of “understatement” as one of the unique parts of British humor. Understatement is represented by indirect, hidden statements, the purpose of which is to have a certain impact on the listener. The authors also claim that precedent phenomena have the cognitive potential to express this function. The problem is that a translator should save the communicative impact of the original text. The article analyses the examples of English-Russian translation and gives some translation strategies.

Keywords: precedent phenomena; understatement; irony; humour; cross-cultural communication; translation; translator’s metacommunicative activity

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