Scholarly Article
Some features of the translation of the contemporary film adaptation of P. Yershov's fairy tale The Little Humpbacked Horse
Didenko, Natalya
2025-12-15 · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne · Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
Abstract
The contemporary film adaptation of P.Yershov's fairy tale The Little Humpbacked Horse is characterised by its prose form, dialogue and the resulting colloquial language of the characters. This is evident in the frequent use of exclamations and repetitions, which serve additional functions in the film, such as characterisation and enhancing the expressiveness of scenes. Another important element of the poetics of magical fairy tales is the presence of a fixed vocabulary recognisable to the audience, including tautological expressions and folkloric two-part terms of a folkloric nature. This article analyses the methods used to translate these structures from Russian into Polish, with particular emphasis on the nature of audiovisual transfer in the voice-over format.
Keywords
film adaptation, audiovisual translation, voice-over, fairy tale poetics, translation strategy, экранизация, аудиовизуальный перевод, закадровый голос, поэтика сказки, переводческая стратегия
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Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne