Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN (Dec 2013)

Some variants of translating Russian realia into the western culture (on the materials of English newspapers)

  • M A Kurbakova,
  • M M Borishanskaya

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 4
pp. 24 – 31

Abstract

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There is no any unique approach to the understanding of the notion “culture-specific vocabulary”. The main techniques used for its translation include transcription, transliteration, loan-translation and mixed methods. The article contains a lot of examples.

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