SOME PECULIARITIES OF TRANSLATION OF COMPOSITE SENTENCES (ON THE MATERIAL OF BUSINESS COMMERCIAL CORRESPONDENCE IN ENGLISH AND IN RUSSIAN)

Abstract

The present article considers some of the peculiarities of translation of complex and compound sentences used in business correspondence in English and in Russian. Translation of these utterances demands taking into account all the variety of information expressed by them as well as their pragmatic and stylistic peculiarities. Different translation transformations are used to perform adequate translation, such as: rearrangements, replacements, additions, omissions. In some cases, there may be loss and change of ethical information, but with mandatory preservation of the transmitted cognitive-evaluative and important pragmatic information, the general communicative-informational structure of the statement. Subject to the general stylistic norms of the source and translating languages that are characteristic of written business communication, differences are also observed between them, manifested in greater conciseness, categoricalness, realism, and assertiveness of the statements in Russian. The transformations made allow us to explicate “emotional psychological nuances” that give greater credibility to the assessment of the situation and emphasize the understanding by the addressee (one of the partners) of the significance of one or another fact.