THE SPECIFICS OF TRANSLATION OF VOCABULARY IN SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL TEXTS OF OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY

Abstract

At present, when technical knowledge area having direct interrelationship with the development of industry and economy is popular, people can observe the demand for fast information exchange with colleagues that are engaged in the same field of scientific research. At this point usage of translation skills in application to professional literature containing vocational industry based terminology (those of oil and gas industry) is important today. The object of an article is to display the specifics of translation of scientific and technical texts, based on the conducted linguistic research. In the course of the work, general characteristic and distinctive features of the texts of oil and gas industry are described, the specifics of vocabulary and translation problems within the given field of industry are presented. Review of the specific vocabulary of the oil and gas industry and translation problems are strongly focused, whereas dissimilarity of the lexical structures of Russian and English languages causes certain difficulties that possibly cannot be solved by using dictionary of technical terms. The authors disclose basic methods of terminology translation that will help to avoid translation mistakes; the results of the performed work can be used for didactic objectives.