SEMANTIC AND PRAGMATIC CHARACTERISTICS OF ENGLISH PASSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS
Journal Title: Scientific journal «International Journal of Philology» - Year 2017, Vol 1, Issue 263
Abstract
This article informs about typology of English passive constructions compared with Ukrainian ones. Passive constructions are more typical for English than for Ukrainian. Therefore, specific problems arise in translating English passive constructions into Ukrainian. One can find out that this peculiarity proceeds from languages belonging to different groups: analytic (English) and synthetic (Ukrainian). Passive constructions are used in order to emphasize rather an object of the action, than a subject. Ukrainian language also has passive constructions, but they are not widely used in Ukrainian professional texts. The article also provides the information about types of mistakes that occur in translation, as well as the correct ways of translation. There are five common types of translating English passive constructions into Ukrainian. Translator should be very careful due to a fact that passive constructions are used in the manuals, covering letters and other technical papers. Semantic and pragmatic characteristics of passive constructions with locative preposition and mediopassive constructions have also been considered. Semantic and pragmatic characteristics of mediopasssive constructions as well as those with locative preposition, with a verb being not defined have been considered. The Attributive Infinitive in the function of definition, undergoing neutralization of opposition active/passive and typical English constructions with static and dynamic passive verbal expressions of perfective/imperfective aspect have been analyzed. It has been concluded that passive constructions are applied to reformatting subject-object relations in the sentence, and therefore the division on theme/rheme. Passive constructions with locative preposition a verb phrase indicate a significant property or the change in this property of subject-referent. In other types of passive constructions strong implicit modal component of obligation or possibility of action and component of completeness or incompleteness of action are singled out.
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H Sydoruk
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