Ways of Translating Cultural and Everyday Realia in the English Versions of A. P. Chekhov’s Play "The Cherry Orchard"
Sereda Elena, Gerasimova Anastasiya Sergeevna
Saint Petersburg University of Management Technologies and Economics
Submitted: 15.03.2020
Abstract. The article analyses peculiarities of translating the Russian everyday realia in the English versions of A. P. Chekhov’s play "The Cherry Orchard". The identified lexical units are classified into thematic groups; ways to translate them into English are analysed. The research objective includes identifying the techniques to transfer cultural and everyday realia while translating the Russian fiction text into English. The findings indicate that translators use different techniques and national cultural colour is often lost.
Key words and phrases: культурно-бытовые реалии, художественный перевод, А. П. Чехов, перевод реалий, русские бытовые реалии, Вишневый сад, перевод русских реалий на английский язык, cultural and everyday realia, literary translation, A. P. Chekhov, realia translation, Russian everyday realia, "The Cherry Orchard", translation of Russian realia into English
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