Русская пословица в тексте и переводе

Abstract

A proverb is not just one ordinary sentence in context. Its semantic and syntactic properties, as well as lexical components are widely used or alluded to anaphorically or cataphorically in literary publications. Proverbs are typically used in context as quotations that allude to known utterances from the system of folk wisdom. It comes from similarity to quotations proper that proverbs occur in microcontexts containing lexical, syntactic and semantic indications of proverbial features. The paper researches of typical proverbial usage in Russian discourse from the viewpoint of linguistic analysis and translation rules. The possibilities and the limitations of equivalent, analogue and descriptive translators are overviewed and characterized, adequate solutions are suggested.