TRANSLATION OF AGREEMENTS AND CONTRACTS FROM ENGLISH INTO RUSSIAN: LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL ASPECTS

Abstract

The paper focuses on the translation of agreements and contracts as a special genre of official documentation. The comparative analysis of English agreements and contracts and their translations into Russian has identified some lexical and grammatical features that translators should be well aware of. The lexical level involves the study of terminology, clichés, abbreviations and borrowings used in agreements and contracts, whereas the grammatical level covers the expression of condition, obligation, tenses and other grammatical categories, as well as the analysis of syntactical structures. Knowing these features of agreements and contracts, in both the source and the target language, can ensure the most accurate translation.

Keywords

• agreement
• contract
• translation
• official documentation
• cliché
• lexical and grammatical levels