Abstract
The paper describes different approaches to lexical and grammatical transformations in modern translation studies. It sheds new light on traditional approaching Chinese translation studies. Using experience of teaching students studying the French and the German languages the authors provide several reasons for proposing the Russian traditional classifications of lexical and grammatical transformations into courses of translation from Chinese practical. According to this approach, there are such types of transformations as lexical and grammatical, as well as complex (or mixed) ones. Such consistent and universal perspective is aimed to help students to understand grammatical and lexical asymmetry of the source and the target languages and it can be of great use in writing research papers.
Highlights
In the Chinese linguistic tradition the first profound attempts to find methods to translate from the original language to the target language took place in the beginning of our era
They are associated with the ideological factor of the introduction of the Buddhist culture to China, which had a great influence on the development of the written form of the Chinese language
Sophomore students start studying the same question in the Chinese language
Summary
In the Chinese linguistic tradition the first profound attempts to find methods to translate from the original language to the target language took place in the beginning of our era. Such cosmological concept as jumbudvipa – the continent where the Buddhist countries are located – was translated by transcription of the proper geographical name jumbzhanbu 瞻 部 and by rendering the word dvipa "continent" by the Chinese equivalent 洲 zhou "continent". In those cases when it was impossible to find a Chinese single-syllable word for the translation of the term, two-syllable words were created: Samsara – 轮回 literally "rotation" [1].
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