Email this article SOCIAL AND POLITICAL REALIA IN R. VAN GULIK’S DETECTIVE STORIES “THE CHINESE MAZE MURDERS”, “THE CHINESE BELL MURDERS” AND IN THEIR TRANSLATIONS INTO CHINESE AND RUSSIAN
- Authors: Startseva S.M.1
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Affiliations:
- Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow
- Issue: No 3 (2017)
- Pages: 147-151
- Section: Гуманитарные науки
- URL: https://vektornaukitech.ru/jour/article/view/230
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18323/2073-5073-2017-3-147-151
- ID: 230
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The paper studies the social and political realia which describe peculiarities of the court system of medieval China in Robert Hans van Gulik’s detective stories “The Chinese Maze Murders”, “The Chinese Bell Murders” and in their translations into Chinese and Russian. The author makes comparative analysis of the originals and their translations into Chinese (“迷宫案”, “铜钟案”) and into Russian (“Murder in the labyrinth”, “Murder on the Crescent Street”). The socio-political realia have been insufficiently studied, especially those describing the court system of China, as well as the ways of their translation into the Chinese and Russian languages. The purpose of this paper is to identify and review lexical units which reflect the main national and cultural peculiarities of the court system in medieval China in the original texts and their translations into Chinese and Russian, as well as the ways of translation by means of a particular translation method. To achieve this purpose, the author analyzes the English-language realia describing the court system of China and the ways of their transfer to the Chinese and Russian languages. To translate the realia from English into Chinese and Russian such translation techniques are used as adding and omitting.
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Svetlana Mikhailovna Startseva
Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow
Author for correspondence.
Email: mikl05@mail.ru
postgraduate student, assistant of Chair of Contrastive Linguistics of the Institute of Foreign Languages
Russian FederationReferences
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