Browsing by Author "Romanova, Olga"

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Dealing with Non-equivalence: A Case of Rendering Latvian Ethnographic Lexis in English Translation
(National Aviation University, 2024-05) Romanova, Olga; Dergača, Elīna
The significance of the study lies in the necessity to help translators approach and render culture-specific discourse containing a vast variety of realia based on cultural, dialectal, ethnographic, and etymologically charged elements. The present publication is devoted to the issue of rendering non-equivalent culture-specific ethnographic and dialectal lexis related to the Latvian traditional bread-making sphere in order to ensure translation that provides readers with an opportunity to embrace Latvian traditional way of life.
Depiction of Characters’ Social Background through their Sociolect in Charles Dickens’ Novel Hard Times and its Russian Translation: Politeness Formulae
(National Aviation University, 2020-04) Romanova, Olga; Gamezo, Deniss
The present research is devoted to the study of politeness formulae conveying the characters’ social background and origin in Charles Dickens’ novel “Hard Times” and in its Russian translation. The goal of the research is to determine the features that characterise the upper-class, middle-class, and lower-class sociolects in the original novel and to compare them to the features found in the translation.
Stylistics of Scientific Discourse in Charles Darwin’s “The Origin of Species” and Its Russian Translations
(National Aviation University, 2021-04) Romanova, Olga; Gamezo, Deniss
The present research is devoted to the study of diachronic development of the Russian academic style based on three translations of Charles Darwin’s “The Origin of the Species” into Russian conducted in different time periods. The original text and the translations are analysed with the goal to identify the characteristic features of the style at different points in time and to determine its developmental tendencies.