Intercultural Generic Repossession in Medical Tv Drama
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This study presents intercultural generic repossession occurring in the translation of medical TV dramas through the popularization of medical knowledge, and resulting in a creation of specific transgenres via pathways of autological accretion and allogenic transfer. Intercultural generic repossession is not considered successful unless the parallactic effect, i.e., a combination of structural unity, communicative function and fluency (or 'elegance') of rendering biomedical concepts is achieved. The aim is to describe the salient aspects of intercultural generic repossession in medical TV dramas; define strategies and tactics promoting intercultural generic repossession in translation. With this aim in mind the following methods are used: the principal instrument of stereoscopic reading; ancillary instruments of contrastive component analysis, contextual analysis, extrapolation from the original and translated textual structures, transformational analysis, lexico-syntactic descriptive analysis, semantic field analysis, and semantic substitution method. Materials of the study comprise a sample of 'House, M.D.' and 'Gray's Anatomy' original and translated (Russian, Ukrainian) transcripts. Our findings demonstrate that the parallactic translation effect (generic integrity) of the medical TV dramas relies, contradictorily, on its patchwork essence of embedded patterns, which penetrated the generic landscape of a target culture at their different stages of adaptation, getting accultured in various modes etc. At the same time, due to the translator's (sub) conscious aspiration towards homogenized vs diversified transgenre, a further range of generic shifts is instituted, this time based on recontextualization or reconceptualization of biomedical concepts, i.e., allogenic transfer.
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