On linguophilosophical aspects of the ludic theory of literary translation

The article is an introduction to the ludic theory of literary translation and is focused on the premises of the philosophy of play of art, play-and-game conceptions of sociology and culturology, the theory of games, game-theoretical semantics and the cognitive theory of translation that are foundational for the proposed theory of literary translation. The research is based on the Russian translations of Shakespeare and translation discourse.