On the ways of translating movie titles

Volume 3, Number 1, 2018, P. 7–9

[ PHILOLOGICAL SCIENCES ]

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Abstract:

The article is dedicated to the translation of English-language films titles into Russian. It discusses the basic strategies of translating titles, reveals the main difficulties of their translation and provides analysis of some examples.

Keywords:

films, movie titles, translation strategies, translation

Authors:

Sergey A. Borkhonov, a student of Power Engineering Institute, group ESb-25-2, Irkutsk National Research Technical University, Irkutsk, Russia

Natalia A. Korepina, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor of Foreign Languages Department No 2 for Engineering Fields of Study, Irkutsk National Research Technical University, Irkutsk, Russia

For citation:

Borkhonov S.A., Korepina N.A. On the Ways of Translating Movie Titles // Social Competence. 2018, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 7–9. (In Russian).

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