Intermediary translation and its role in film translation

Abstract

The article shows specific features of the use of English as an intermediary translation language between South and East Slavic languages in translating a Croatian film with English subtitles into the Ukrainian language; presents issues of language and culture relationship, interpreter’s activities as cultural intermediary both within a language, and in contacts between different languages, analyses interpreter’s linguistic, historical, cultural, literary, artistic and communication competencies; the paper looks at genetic and cultural relationship of the Ukrainian and Croatian languages; the study concerns language «hyper-purism» when translating films into the Ukrainian language, focuses on film translation for young audiences; it analyses lexical and stylistic units (units of general vocabulary, realia, tropes) and their adequate translation considering interlanguage relations as well as subtitling standards.