Non-Equivalence in Translation: Russian-German Diachronic Corpus-Based Dictionaries of Non-Equivalent Units

• Authors: Maria L. Alekseyeva

Abstracts

EN

This paper explores the essence of lexical units with no direct equivalents in other languages and introduces a bilingual dictionary of a new type. Such a dictionary is built upon a diachronic corpus of parallel translations with due consideration of the principles of present-day lexicography. The suggested diachronic German-Russian glossary of non-equivalent vocabulary – realia – presents the mega-, macro- and microstructure of a diachronic translation dictionary. The glossary is of a holistic character: it can provide information on the ways different realia were translated in various periods and thus reflect the creative role of translation plurality; it can also influence the formation of translating competence, acquisition of translating skills and skills of comparative analysis.

Keywords

EN

lexicography; translation problems; diachronic bilingual dictionary; the mega-; macro- and microstructure

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Research in Language
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 315-333

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Maria L. Alekseyeva

• Ural State Pedagogical University, Yekaterinburg, Russia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/1731-7533.19.3.06

Biblioteka Nauki

2129716