COMPENSATING THE IMPLICITENESS OF ENGLISH TEXTS IN ENGLISH-TO-RUSSIAN TRANSLATION (ON THE BASIS OF CUSTOMS ENGLISH)
Keywords:
Customs English, terminology, language impliciteness, language explicitness, translation techniquesAbstract
The article examines the ways of compensating the impliciteness of English texts in English-to-Russian translation. English is implicit by nature, it is characterized by concise syntax, and consequently, a certain number of meanings are not verbalized at the textual presentation level. The Russian language demonstrates the opposite tendency, namely, explicitness and, as a result, verbosity. A significant number of English sentences require fewer words to express a certain meaning than their Russian equivalents. In order for an English sentence to be translated into Russian without losing its official style features and to be adequately understood by Russian speakers, in certain cases it is necessary to make up for the "lost meanings", to compensate for them. The comparative analysis of English customs texts and terminology with their Russian-language equivalents revealed that the most productive ways to compensate for the implicitness of English is to add abstract classifying and categorizing nouns, as well as nouns indicating the function.
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