TRANSLATION PECULIARITIES OF SITUATIONAL IRONY IN ARMENIAN RENDERING (BASED ON S. MAUGHAM’S ‘’THREE FAT WOMEN OF ANTIBES’’)

The article refers to the translation peculiarities of situational irony on the basis of S. Maugham’s “Three Fat Women of Antibes”. Irony, as a stylistic device, plays a significant role in literature. Perceiving irony is not an easy task as it depends on different factors, such as cultural knowledge, the reader’s interpretative skills, background knowledge and many more. The translation of irony becomes even more difficult as besides the factors the translator should find appropriate ways to transmit it into target text. The peculiarity of the translation of irony is that irony should not be explained in the target text (TT), so that the TT readers can discover it themselves.