Humanities & Social Sciences 3 (2016 9) 536-542 ~ ~ ~ УДК 81’25 Translation as Stochastic Informational Process Tamara A. Kazakova* St. Petersburg State University 7/9 Universitetskaya nab., St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia Received 11.10.2015, received in revised form 09.02.2016, accepted 04.03.2016 The article touches upon the problem of regulating linguistic and extralinguistic information in translation that is considered as a stochastic process. <...> Gains and losses on this way can be viewed based on such principles of regulating information as linear, combinatorial and probabilistic. <...> The informational approach to translation allows investigating such phenomenon as residual entropy of the individual literary text and its role in choosing most appropriate if not accurate interlingual compatibles. <...> Introduction It is acknowledged that informational process, acknowledged translation is an in the course of which an amount of information is transferred to the target receiver by means of changing the code. <...> Unfortunately, when theories discuss informational approach to translation this interdependence is seldom considered, if at all. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: tamakaza@gmail.com # 536 # However, sense we, presumably, translate is not irrelevant to the code and their interrelationship may vary depending on the text, which makes us think of a different basis for a model of translation, e.g., the stochastic model that focuses at fuzzy equivalence. <...> From this point of view, any seemingly untranslatable text may be transferred if we consider its form and meaning not as separate entities but in their interrelationship and its possible variants, thus as conveying a higher information load. <...> Such a model is pertinent when we translate so called form-oriented texts (actually, authoring) and presume that form as such is untranslatable due to interlingual differences. <...> This interrelationship provides a far more information to be perceived and amount of transferred than meaning separated from the Tamara A. Kazakova. <...> This article is meant to share some propositions on the probable ways of regulating this interrelationship as a fuzzy set of its properties, i.e., is an attempt to approach a stochastic model of translation. <...> Stochastic models are probabilistic patterns in which a set of elements is interpreted as a distribution of probabilities. translation, this or that In respect of stochastic approach <...>