Open AccessLinguistic Features of Chinese Legal Discourse Translation into English and Ukrainian.
Author(s) -
Viktoria Kutsak,
Леонід Велитченко
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
naukovij vìsnik pìvdennoukraïnsʹkogo nacìonalʹnogo pedagogìčnogo unìversitetu ìmenì k.d. ušinsʹkogo. lìngvìstičnì nauki/naukovij vìsnik pìvdennoukraïnsʹkogo nacìonalʹnogo pedagogìčnogo unìversitetu ìm. k.d. ušinsʹkogo. lìngvìstičnì nauki
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2664-2662
pISSN - 2616-5317
DOI - 10.24195/2616-5317-2018-27-18
Subject(s) - ukrainian , linguistics , presentation (obstetrics) , china , political science , law , philosophy , medicine , radiology
The article is devoted to the study of linguistic features of Chinese legal discourse and its variant in English and Ukrainian. The work presents genre typologically common features of legal discourse based on non-closely related languages: Chinese, English, Ukrainian; specific linguistic characteristics of Chinese legal discourse are studied; translation operations of the text under analysis — the Criminal Code of the People’s Republic of China — are examined and the pecularities of its presentation in English and Ukrainian languages are read.Key words: legal discourse, linguistic features, translation operations.