Challenges in translating commercial agreements

V V Stepanova; Степанова Валентина Витальевна; L A Kiseleva; Киселёва Лилия Александровна

Challenges in translating commercial agreements

Authors: Stepanova VV¹, Kiseleva LA¹
Affiliations:
1. Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
Issue: No 3 (2014)
Pages: 87-95
Section: Articles
URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/russian-language-studies/article/view/10172

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The article studies the incongruity of stylistic organization of an agreement as one of the types of legal discourse in English and Russian. The comparative analysis of certain stylistic differences (lexical, grammatical, and syntactical) and the tips for translation suggested in this concise work are aimed at better understanding and interpreting the legal document of the given format.

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commercial agreement, pronominal adverbs, doublets, triplets, word strings, schedule, addendum, pro-forms, and/or, passive forms, shall/will, conditionals and hypothetical formulations

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V V Stepanova

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

Email: valentina0222@mail.ru
The Chair of Foreign Languages Law Faculty

L A Kiseleva

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

Email: valentina0222@mail.ru
The Chair of Foreign Languages Law Faculty

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Vol 22, No 4 (2024): LINGUISTIC PROFILES OF RUSSIAN TEXTS: GOING FROM FORM TO MEANING

Challenges in translating commercial agreements

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V V Stepanova

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