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Title: Strategies and techniques in the translation of movie titles (an English-Russian comparative case study)
Vol. 7, 2019, pp. 59-70.
DOI: 10.46687/SILC.2019.v07.005
Author: Radostina Iglikova
About the author: Assistant Professor Radostina Iglikova defends her PhD thesis in Germanic Languages (Modern English) in May, 2016. She holds the position of assistant professor of American literature at the Department of English Studies, Faculty of Humanities at Shumen University since 2010 and is the author of one elective discipline. She has guest-lectured at the University of Cordoba, Spain and the University of Bucharest, Romania within the Erasmus Plus programme. Her research interests include CMDA, New Media and Comparative Linguistics. She has participated in a number of conferences and her publications include the monograph Ways of Achieving Efficiency in Women’s E-magazine Discourse (English - Bulgarian study) and over 20 articles in peer-reviewed and impact-factor journals.
e-mail: r.iglikova@shu.bg
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8933-539X
Author: Olga Usataya
About the author: BA student at the Department of English Studies, Shumen University, Bulgaria
e-mail: olealiolik@mail.ru
Citation (APA style): Iglikova, R., & Usataya, O. (2019). Strategies and techniques in the translation of movie titles (an English-Russian comparative case study). Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, 7, 59-70. doi: 10.46687/SILC.2019.v07.005
Link: https://silc.fhn-shu.com/images/issues/2019/vol7/SILC_2019_Vol%207_059-070_12.pdf
Abstract: The purpose of the present article is to popularize the findings and observations acquired from a corpus-based comparative case study of 200 English language titles and their officially promoted Russian-language versions. The study observes and analyzes on a comparative basis the strategies and techniques employed in the translation of movie titles in the specific context of English-Russian translation. As a result of the nature of the study and its predominantly qualitative character, the results and observations are not intended to be representative or conclusive, but rather to provide a glance into the process of translation within a specific context, through the prism of a systematic classification of strategies and techniques. Due to volume limitations, the proposed article includes detailed analysis of only 10 titles excerpted from the entire corpus. These examples have been selected by the authors as representative to a large degree of the case study findings.
Key words: translation strategies, translation techniques, movie titles, English-Russian translation
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