TRANSFER OF THE NATIONAL AND CULTURAL UNIQUENESS OF XIEHOUYU IN RUSSIAN TRANSLATION

Abstract

This article examines the national sociocultural features of the origin and functioning of Chinese sayings with a truncated ending xiehouyu, such as cultural and historical realities and puns, as well as features of their transmission when translated from Chinese into Russian. During the research the author makes conclusions about the applicability of the methods of translation of phraseological units (such as the selection of a functional analogue, the method of pragmatic meaning, the method of compensation, the method of commenting), proposed in the general theory of translation, to the translation of sayings with a truncated ending xiehouyu within the framework of the Chinese-Russian language pair. In the article, on a large number of examples, translation comments were considered that are necessary when translating phraseological units such as xiehouyu, containing the names of historical characters, everyday realities, as well as puns built on consonance.