CONSTITUTIVE FEATURES OF A TERM AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE IN TRANSLATING UNITS OF THE TERMINOSPHERE “SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF NATURAL TERRITORIES” (BY THE EXAMPLE OF RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the identification of constitutive features of terminological units and combinations and their critical comprehension from the point of view of translation from English-Russian and Russian-English. The research is carried out in the context of Contrastive Linguistics and Linguistic Translation Studies by the material of units of the term sphere “Sustainable Development of natural territories” – terms, nomenclature units, and terminoids extracted from texts of academic style in contemporary Russian and English. It is shown that from the point of view of translation theory and practice the most significant and controversial are such key characteristics of the term as unambiguity, lack of synonyms within the same term system, and lack of ethno-cultural specificity of their semantics. Translation tools that allow to make English-Russian and Russian-English translation taking into account the identified difficulties are proposed. All theoretical provisions proposed by the author are considered from the point of view of the evolution of the views of linguists-terminologists.