From phaetons to frigates: translating transport realias in Jane Austen’s novels into Russian

the article deals with transport realias translation in Jane Austen novels. Thematic justification is contingent on the fact that even though English writer novels were published in the period between 1791 and 1816, her art is still of current interest: many new Russian translations of her books have been created since 2003. The purpose of this research is studying the peculiarities of transport realias in Jane Austen novels in the context of translation plurality, specifying the cross-cultural equivalence level during transport realias translation. The analyses of Jane Austen original texts with transport realias emphasis, comparison of different translations of these texts into Russian for revealing similarities and differences in approaches of transport realias translation, study of various researchers works connected with realias translation and their classification are among the research tasks. The results of the research can be used by translators to improve the accuracy and adequacy of their translations and applied to train specialists in translation field.

transport realias, Jane Austen, realias translation, translational plurality