PRAGMATIC COMPONENT IN TRANSLATING TEXTS OF AUDIO EXCURSIONS FROM RUSSIAN INTO JAPANESE (ON THE MATERIAL OF THE AUDIO GUIDE “KHABAROVSK – CITY OF MILITARY GLORY”)

Abstract

The article reflects some of the ideas of the research carried out within the framework of an interdisciplinary project dedicated to the creation of an electronic audio guide “Khabarovsk. City of Military Glory” in the Russian, English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. The expansion of contacts with neighboring countries and the development of national touristic programs determines the need for the tourism sector in creation of audio guides. The declared project is practically oriented to foreign and Russian tourists, with the aim of acquainting them with the history of the monuments of military glory of Khabarovsk city. The authors consider one of the research problems, in particular, the transfer of the pragmatic component of the texts of audio excursions from Russian into Japanese. Based on the study of the specifics of the texts of tourist discourse and consideration of pragmatic aspect of translation of excursion texts, it has been established that an adequate translation of such texts can be carried out using such pragmatic adaptations as addition, omission, generalization, concretization, modulation.