The linguistic peculiarities of German Grimm’s fairy tales film adaptations

UDC 821.112.2 BBK 83.3(2Рос=Нем.)

Merkurjewa V. B., Shadrina A. L.

The article studies the linguistic peculiarities of a film adaptation as a film text and as a secondary text. On the basis of the analysis of German Grimm’s fairy tales film adaptations the lexical means that change the genre and the style of a fairy tale in the adaptation and correctly convert the original text of the story into a film text are defined. The linguistic features of the source text preserved in the secondary text are also specified.

Key words: creolized text, film text, secondary text, film adaptation, fairytale film, Grimm’s Fairy Tales.

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