Журнал «Психология образования в поликультурном пространстве»

FL STUDENTS PROFESSIONAL TRAINING FOR TRANSLATING OF CROSS-CULTURAL TEXTS (FOLLOWING THE EXAMPLE OF REALIA-ALLUSIONS IN THE NEIL GAIMAN’S NOVEL “AMERICAN GODS”)

Author: Aitov V.F., Rakhmanova I.Yu., Chiglintseva T.A.

The problems of FL Teacher training is under the consideration in this article. The present study analyzes the issues of the development of general cultural competences on the basis of studyingthe peculiarities of nationally-marked items - realia. The article suggests the classification of the English realia-allusions, analyzes the English realia-allusions on Scandinavian mythology which belong to a big thematic group of ethnographic realia. The Scandinavian mythological realia are referred to as a lexical group of connotation realia, belonging to the original culture and are hardly known or quite unknown for the accepting culture. In the context of the development of professional competences the authors analyze the main methods of translation of nationally-marked items (transcription, transliteration, loan-translation, descriptive or explanatory translation, approximate translation, translation with the help of functional analogue). The article deals with the peculiarities of the translation of mythological realia-allusions on the Scandinavian mythology from the English language into the Russian language, based on the examples of realia-allusions taken from the novel of the modern English writer Neil Gaiman “American gods”. Particularly in the analyzed selection of illustrative examples there were singled out three groups of realia-allusions: names of gods and other proper names, the group of realia, describing the peculiar features of Scandinavian life, the group of realia rendering into the Russian language numerous nicknames of Scandinavian gods. The degree of translation difficulty lies at the basis of their typology. The analysis of the translation of Scandinavian mythological realia from the English language into Russian showed that the third group of realia, rendering into the Russian language the numerous nicknames of Scandinavian gods is the most difficult for translation.