PROBLEMS OF TRANSLATING CULTURE-SPECIFIC TERMS, WHICH EXISTED IN THE AZERBAIJANI LANGUAGE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY, INTO ENGLISH (BY THE MATERIAL OF DILARA SEYID-ZADE’S "AZERBAIJAN IN THE BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY: ROADS LEADING TO INDEPENDENCE")
Kasymova Gyunel' Einulla kyzy
Azerbaijan University of Languages
Submitted: 10.03.2018
Abstract. At the beginning of the XX century, Azerbaijan went through many stages, lived under the captivity of foreign cultures, declared its independence; therefore, the Azerbaijani lexicon is rich in realia reflecting the cultural and national heritage of that period. Non-natives’ increasing interest in the Azerbaijani culture in the last decades stipulates translating these culture-bound terms into target languages without distortion and it specifies the relevance of this article. The conducted research has shown that the theme of culture-bound terms translation is very challenging for translators. Ambiguity of the origin of culture-bound terms, absence of corresponding equivalents in the target language, equivocacy of realia meaning even in the source language and other factors cause distortion in the translation of original texts into the target language.
Key words and phrases: реалии, культурно-специфичные термины, непереводимость, лингво-культурные проблемы, национальные и заимствованные культурно-специфичные термины, институциональные термины, realia, culture-bound terms, untranslatability, linguistic and cultural difficulties, native and borrowed culture-bound terms, institutional terms
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