3.3 Graphical Means

Intentional violation of the graphical shape of a word (or word combination) used to reflect its authentic pronunciation is called Graphon.”42 This SD proved to be an extremely concise but effective means of supplying information about the speaker’s origin, social and educational background, physical or emotional state etc. The latter is described in the following example, “Now,” said Kanga, “Here’s your medicine, and then bed"

“W-w-what medicine?” said Piglet.

In the next example physical condition of the character rendered even like that: Piglet, sitting in the running Kanga’s pocket, substituting the kidnapped Roo, thinks, this shall take

is I never to

“If flying really it.”

Notwithstanding the fact we have studied Stylistic Devices quite thoroughly we do not think that this information can be applied directly when analyzing the stylistic peculiarities of the translation. We are not to trace how the translator translates this or that SD. Our goal we see as disclosing of how the translator “plays” with the style of the original text striving to achieve better ways of translation.

Though, we have made the stylistic analysis of the Source Text, the latter is interesting for us not as a set of SD but as a whole complex integrity whose Style is to be rendered correspondingly into the Target Language. Thus, the outlook of SD will be undoubtedly involved in this discourse.