A SOCIOLINGUISTIC ASPECT OF THE TRANSLATION THEORY
Shadrin Viktor Ivanovich
Saint-Petersburg State University
Abstract. The article is devoted to the examination of the problems of contemporary translation studies from the positions of sociolinguistics, at the same time the issues of language relation to social roles of communication participants, and also the impact of status and social position on the language are in the focus of attention. The conclusions about the regularities of dialects and sociolects translation are of significant interest, a well-reasoned evaluation of the theory "justification" of a socially coloured text while its translation into another language is given.
Key words and phrases: социолингвистика, переводоведение, диалект и социолект, теория выравнивания текста, сленговый эквивалент, бесклассовые языки, социальный колорит текста, sociolinguistics, translation studies, dialect and sociolect, the theory of text justification, slang equivalent, classless languages, social colouring of the text
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