student from 01.01.2022 to 01.01.2026
Kazan, Russian Federation
Kazan, Russian Federation
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The article analyzes the specific features of translating military slang in fiction, based on the novels «The Hunt for Red October» by Tom Clancy and «The Naked and the Dead» by Norman Mailer. It examines the main types of military slang and professionally marked military vocabulary, as well as the methods used to render them in official Russian translations. Particular attention is paid to preserving expressiveness, stylistic coloring, and the cultural and historical specificity of the original texts. The study identifies the most frequent translation transformations, including calque, functional equivalent, concretization, generalization, modulation, euphemization, and compensation. It concludes that translation decisions largely depend on the genre of the work and the historical and cultural context of the translation.
military slang, translation transformations, stylistic adaptation, calque, euphemization, Tom Clancy; Norman Mailer.
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2. Clancy, T. (2005). The Hunt for Red October. Moscow: EKSMO. ISBN 5-699-13117-5. (Translated from English)
3. Mailer, N. (1976). The Naked and the Dead. (V.P. Mikhailov, I.A. Razumny, & V. Gladysheva, Trans.). Moscow: Voenizdat. (Original work published 1949)
4. Yarotsky, D.A. (2020). Military Jargon as a "Language for the Initiated" in Intercultural Communication. In Current Issues of Philological Science in the 21st Century: Collection of articles from the IX International Scientific Conference of Young Scholars (February 7, 2020). Part 1: Modern Linguistic Research (pp. 58–62). Yekaterinburg: UMC-UPI. ISBN 978-5-8295-0707-7. RSCI ID: 43947128. (In Russian)
5. Clancy, T. (1984). The Hunt for Red October. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-285-0.
6. Mailer, N. (1949). The Naked and the Dead. London: Wingate. ISBN 10: 0586091157; ISBN 13: 9780586091159.
