Peculiarities of Еnglish-Ukrainian official business style texts translation

Abstract

The paper focuses on the functioning peculiarities of official business style texts and the techniques of their translation. The authors emphasize that translating the official business style texts it is essential to hold a precise and concise style of expression. Observing strict linguistic standards in official business style of the target language allows the translator to solve complicated problems of business communication. Researches on the peculiarities of the official business style texts translation enables a statement on notorious difficulty of this style, translating of which requires particular attention, much learning, erudition, and large background knowledge. The clarity of information in a translated official document, unambiguity of its content depends on the quality of its translation. It is made clear that one of the major translator's problems in translating documentation and its terminological units is the polysemy in the official business discourse. The extremely important task for the translator, therefore, is to find the corresponding equivalents in the target (in this case Ukrainian) language. The authors state that the official business texts presuppose a standardisation of linguistic means (idioms, cliché, complex cliché constructions), using which one may achieve the syntactic and semantic formalisation of the text. The authors state that translating is a complex process in which it is very important that the translator's skills must be completed with the lingo-cultural knowledge, taking into consideration the interrelation of contacting cultures. It is emphasised that phraseological units, used in the official business texts, are mostly neutral. The authors note that translating of the official business documents, related to the enterprise commercial activity, it is essential to guarantee the correct use of semantic equivalents of the terms, the context translation, and interpretation of diverse abbreviations and acronyms. Creating and functioning of abbreviations and acronyms help using the language in a more economical, comprehensive and informative way, and making the content clearer in general. Business style overall is characterised by increasing standardisation and unification of the language, usage of idioms, clichés, and idiomatic constructions.

Philosophical-Translation Approach in Corpus-Applied Translation Studies: Phenomenon of the Official-Business Style Texts

“…It is known that the official-business text is a genre of communicative interaction used in official situations for transmitting information, establishing rules, concluding agreements, formalizing documentation, etc. 17 . Texts of official-business documents reflect the formal nature of communication; they must meet the requirements of adherence to specified grammatical, orthographic, punctuation, and stylistic norms, characteristic of the terminology of a particular field of activity.…”

“…Cham : Springer, 2018. 319 p 17. Bolotnikova A. P., Chernyshov V. V., Talovyria H. M. Peculiarities of English-Ukrainian official business style texts translation.…”