title: Signs of Cultural Significance in the Works of Mo Yan Translated into Russian
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metadata.value: Xu, Lihong
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Kazakova, Tamara A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-03-04T18:01:17Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-03-04T18:01:17Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Xu Lihong, Kazakova T. A. Signs of Cultural Significance in the Works of Mo Yan Translated into Russian. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2021, vol. 13, issue 4, pp. 464–483.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2021.401
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/35466
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The authors of this article analyze Russian translations of non-translatable linguistic signs in
  the works of Chinese writer Mo Yan, prize laureate of the Nobel Prize in 2012. In his works,
  the writer amply uses culturally-bound words and phrases as well as folklore and tales meaningful
  for Chinese material, social and spiritual culture. Some of them are cultural constants
  traditionally associated with emotional, axiological and aesthetic values. Mo Yan’s style includes
  common language, idioms, even swear words alongside vernacular parables and ditties.
  As a whole, his style itself is the embodiment of Chinese common culture, which presents a
  seemingly insoluble task for translators — how to translate the non-translatable, to recreate in
  Russian not just the style but the culture itself. The authors explore both the translators’ solutions
  and inevitable shifts and losses determined in the process of interaction between the two
  very different languages and cultures. Particular attention is paid to translators’ solutions for
  the symbolic functions of Chinese personal names. In addition, complications connected with
  the transfer of Chinese everyday realia, customs and traditions that appear as important components
  in the structure of images and contents of Mo Yan’s works are considered. An attempt
  is made to reconstruct some important components of the intercultural area that emerges in
  the course of translation from Chinese into Russian.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This work was carried out within the framework of the Heilongjiang University specific fund
  for main research programs for 2020, supported by the government of Heilongjiang Province of PRC:
  2020-KYYWF–0945 (Cultural semantics in Mo Yan’s works in Russian translation); the main research
  programs for 2019, supported by the National Fund for social sciences of PRC: 19ZDA317 (Translation of
  the dictionary of modern Chinese).
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 13; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: non-translatability
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: lacuna
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: realia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: intercultural area
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: translator’s solution
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Signs of Cultural Significance in the Works of Mo Yan Translated into Russian
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metadata.value: Article
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