English economic terminological collocations and their trans

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ENGLISH ECONOMIC TERMINOLOGICAL COLLOCATIONS AND THEIR TRANSLATION INTO UKRAINAIN

Nataliia Ishchuk

Department of English for Specific Purposes, Vasyl’ Stus Donetsk National University, Vinnytsia, Ukraine.

Iryna Hrachova

Department of English Philology, Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University, Vinnytsia, Ukraine.

Abstract

Background: The research into methods used in translating English economic terminological collocations is topical because of the emergence of new terminological units in economic discourse. Translation of terminological collocations in economic domain is often challenging because their components tend to have multiple meanings. The translator’s task is to find the most appropriate method of translation to achieve equivalence in the target language.

Both foreign and domestic authors are increasingly studying theoretical and practical problems of translating English terminological collocations. However, having studied the existing methods of translation of terminological collocations, we found out that little research has been carried out into the techniques used in translating multi-component economic terms of different structures.

Purpose: The aim of the paper is to identify the ways English collocations in economic domain are translated into Ukrainian.

Results: The choice of translation techniques depends on the category of non-equivalent lexis. Descriptive method dominates (39%), especially in relation to economic terms and idioms. Calquing, making up the largest share in translating abbreviations, accounts for 16% of the total number of the vocabulary under analysis, with transcoding following it – 15%. Decompression is mainly applied in rendering economic terms and its share is not significant – 12%, while contextual substitution was used in 25 lexical items, making up 9%. Calquing along with permutation and/or addition and compression and have low frequency for the economic domain (5% and 4% respectively).

Discussion: When translating English economic terminological collocations, a translator faces difficulties with multi-component collocations. The main reason for this is that a translator has to scrutinize every component first and then synthesize the translated elements, often changing the structural model of the term. Needed is further research into the quantitative analysis of translation methods most appropriate for rendering two- and three-word terminological collocations because of their prevailing presence in English economic terminological system.

Keywords: terminological collocations, multi-component terms, translation methods, calquing, permutation, transposition, a combined method.

Vitae

Nataliia Ishchuk is PhD in Education, Associate Professor, Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages for Specific Purposes at Vasyl’ Stus Donetsk National University. Her areas of interest include difficulties in translating economic texts, linguistic features of economic vocabulary, structural features of economic terminology.

Correspondence: ischuk.n@donnu.edu.ua

Iryna Hrachova is PhD in Philology, Associate Professor, Associate Professor at the Department of English Philology at Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University. Her areas of interest include the history of the English language, difficulties in translating texts

Correspondence: ira.gracheva77@gmail.com

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