Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2026 19 (6)

Authors

Quero Gervilla, Enrique F.; Yerik, Gulnur

Contact information

Quero Gervilla, Enrique F.: University of Granada (Granada, Kingdom of Spain); ORCID: 0000-0002-1240-8121; Yerik, Gulnur : L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan); ; ORCID: 0000-0001-7283-2402

Keywords

cultural realia; literary translation; domestication; foreignization; estrangement; Oscar Wilde; Kazakh language

Abstract

This article is devoted to a comprehensive analysis of cultural realia as the subject of translation transformations, based on Oscar Wilde’s fairy tale “The Happy Prince” and its translations into Kazakh and Russian. The theoretical framework of the study is based on V. V. Kabakchi’s classification of cultural realia (idionyms, xenonyms, polyonyms), as well as the concepts of domestication and foreignization (L. Venuti) and estrangement (V. Shklovsky). The aim of the study is to identify strategies for rendering culturally marked units and to determine their functional transformation in translations. The study employs methods of comparative and interpretive analysis. The results show that Kazakh translations are characterized by a predominance of domestication and cultural adaptation, including the transformation of religious realia, whereas Russian translations demonstrate strategic diversity. It has been established that the translation of cultural realia functions not only as a linguistic process but also as a cultural-interpretive one

Pages

1333–1344

EDN

YWZMEW

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/158613

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