Polylinguality and Transcultural PracticesPolylinguality and Transcultural Practices2618-897X2618-8988Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)3208010.22363/2618-897X-2022-19-3-533-539Research ArticleThe Role of the Intermediary Language in Artistic TranslationAkkalievaAizhan F.<p>Doctor PhD, Senior Lecturer, Department of Foreign Languages</p>akkalieva.aizhan@mail.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6466-9967AmalbekovaMaral B.Doctor of Philology, Professor of the Department of Theory and Practice of Translationmaraluspen@mail.ruShakarim UniversityEurasian University named after LN Gumilev3009202219353353930092022Copyright © 2022, Akkalieva A.F., Amalbekova M.B.2022<p style="text-align: justify;">Indirect translation, as a linguistic and literary phenomenon, is of great interest in terms of linguistic, structural and linguocultural aspects of the languages involved in the translation process. Mediating or indirect translation, despite of being negatively treated both by some scholars and practical translators, remains relevant for the representation of many national literatures, including the Kazakh one. This paper is aimed at conducting a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the translation of a literary piece of fiction to assess the degree of influence of the mediating language on the adequacy and pragmatic equivalence of translation. As an empirical material the authors considered Russian and English variants of translation of the novel by well-known Kazakh writer S. Yelubay Aq Boz Yui . The analysis carried out as part of the study allowed us to come to the conclusion that the Russian translation, which is distinguished by a high degree of skill, recreates the national-historical specificity of the work. This is achieved due to the translator’s knowledge of extralinguistic information. The translation into Russian is dominated by categorical-morphological and pragmatic transformations. The English translation is characterized by lexical transformations. It was also possible to identify inconsistencies caused by structural-stylistic and linguo-culturological differences in the triad of languages under consideration.</p>indirect translationmediating languageS. Yelubaynovel-trilogy Aq Boz Yuiопосредованный переводязык-посредникС. Елубаевроман-трилогияАқ боз үй[Chukovskii, K. 1968. Vysokoe iskusstvo. Moscow: Sovetskii pisatel’, 1968. Print. (In Russ.)][Witt, S. 2017. “Institutionalized intermediates: Conceptualizing Soviet practices of indirect translation”. Translation Studies 10(2): 166—182. Print.][Mashakova, A.K. 2016. “Retseptsiya kazakhskoi literatury i sravnitel’noe literaturovedenie”. International scientific review 10(20): 45—47. Print. (In Russ.)][Bazarbaeva, A. 2013. “Aktual’nye problemy russko-kazakhskogo perevoda v Kazakhstane”. Vestnik KGU im. Sh. Valikhanova 1-2: 28—33. Print. (In Russ.)][Elubai, S. 2005. Aқ boz үi: roman-trilogiya. Almaty: Zhazushy. Print. (In Kaz.)][Elubaev, S. 2005. Odinokaya yurta: roman-trilogiya. Almaty. Print. (In Russ.)][Yelubay, S. 2016. Lonely Yurt. Brooklyn; NY.: Metropolitan classics Press. Print.][Keңesbaev, І. 2007. Қazaқ tіlіnің frazeologiyalyқ sөzdіgі [Frazeologicheskii slovar’ kazakhskogo yazyka]. Almaty. Print. (In Kaz.)][Kazakhsko-russkii onlain slovar’. Web. www.sozdik.kz.][Қaliev, B. 2014. Қazaқ tіlіnің tүsіndіrme sөzdіgі [Tolkovyi slovar’ kazakhskogo yazyka] Almaty: MTDI publ. Print. (In Kaz.)][Slovar’ russkogo yazyka: in 4 vol. 1982. Moscow: Russkii yazyk publ. Print. (In Russ.)][Collins English dictionary. Web. www.colinsdictionary.com]