Anthropocentric paradigm of phraseological units in the literary translation

Abstract

This article represents theoretical problems of the anthropocentric paradigm. Considering anthropocentrism
as person in the Universe center as a basis of all events and its reflection in language, the
author investigates its functionality in relation to speech activity. Moreover, it is an attempt to shed light
on ways of research of the modern language personality and four various directions of the anthropocentric
paradigm. In the article a term anthropocentrism is used as a principle of research of “the person in
language”, and it is more concrete “than the person in phraseology”. Phraseology research on the basis
of the principle “in language” leads the person to development of the new direction, i.e. the anthropocentric
phraseology. In the article it is also submitted the analysis of phraseological units in the anthropocentric
paradigm on the basis of M. Auezov’s novel “Way of Abai”.
Characterizing the direction of an anthropocentric paradigm in the field of phraseology, the author
distributes them in groups and reveals their correlation to psychology of person, the characteristic of an
emotional state and traits of character.In particular, personal qualities of the person are assesseed on
examples, and there is analyzed the relation to environment, a place in society and collective. From the
point of view of the anthropocentric paradigm the article considers the specifics of transfer of phraseological
units in a literary translation. To translate phraseological units from one language into another is
one of the most difficult tasks. It is not enough to transfer complete meaning of the idioms in the translation;
a translator should try to convey national spirit of the fixed phrase.
Key words: anthropocentrism, language personality, linguistics, phraseological unit, literary
translation