The system and structure of sources of corporate law
This article considers the system and structure of sources of Russian corporate law. Research approaches to the notion and legal nature of sources of corporate law and their place in the system of civil law sources are analysed. The authors address the legal nature of corporate regulations, including ...
What is a ‘rare’ language in translation? The experience of distance reading
... Publishing House in the Netherlands, comparing the periods of 2010—2013 and 2020—2023. A significant increase in the role of translators is reflected in the rise of translation share in the publishing house. There is an observed growth in the number of source languages for translation, with a decrease in the proportion of English. Translations from French, Italian, German, Scandinavian languages, Portuguese, and Japanese have emerged. A comparison with the Polyandria Russian Publishing House during ...
Translation Historiography
... lived experiences of an interpreter in Finland during the Second World War.
Linguistica Antverpiensia,
New Series, 15, pp. 106—120.
Kujamäki, P., 2018. Archives. In: L. D'hulst and Y. Gambier, eds.
A History of Modern Translation Knowledge: Sources, Concepts, Effects.
Amsterdam; Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, pp. 247—250.
Kujamäki, P. and Footitt, H., 2016. Military history and translation studies: shifting territories, uneasy borders. In: Y. Gambier and L. van Doorslaer, eds.
Border ...
The subjects of legal monitoring of Justice of the Peace
... actual relations in administration and legal regulation. The author applies some basic research methods: historical legal, formal legal and comparative legal approaches, content analysis, biographical method; the effectiveness of study of this type of sources is provided by using interdisciplinary approach. The author finds that travelers’ notes to be sources of considerable value which substantially widens our knowledge about the state and law of Central Asia. At the same time travelers’ notes ...
Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language by D.N. Ushakov as an ethnolinguistic source
... both the literary and colloquial speech of educated people in the new Soviet Russia. It characterized the individual of the new social order and recorded emerging linguistic norms. The aim of this article is to present this dictionary as a potential source for the study of ethnolinguistic vocabulary. It is demonstrated that Ushakov’s work not only fulfills all the normative functions of an explanatory dictionary but also objectively contains a significant amount of dialectal vocabulary, as it was ...
Peculiarities of ceramic production from the Neolithic settlements Pribrezhnoye and Ushakovo-3
... approximately the same locations, were analyzed. The main objectives of the study were to identify the characteristics and common features of ceramic production from these Neolithic settlements and to determine the locations of the primary raw material sources. A significant difference in the trace element composition between the corded ware and Funnel Beaker culture ceramics was established. Moreover, it was found that most of the Funnel Beaker pottery was made from non-local clays, suggesting that ...
Virtual reconstruction of the Market street of 18th-century Königsberg’s Old town: sources, technologies, building history and models
... photographs, literature and research works, local history evidence, individual housing plans, design details and other data. Restoring the volumetric and spatial composition and external appearance of the facades is complicated by the absence of historical sources dating back to the study period when the aesthetic of buildings was dominated by the style features of late Baroque, Rococo and early Classicism. Although the houses retained their Medieval layout, the appearance of the street-square changed. ...
International legal protection of marine environment from vessel-source pollution
This article analyses the basic norms of international law on the protection of marine environment from vessel-source pollution. The universal and regional levels of legal regulation of preventing marine environment pollution are identified. Special attention is paid to the status of the Baltic Sea as a “special area” and as a “particularly sensitive sea area”.
1. Meeresumweltschutz für Nord- und Ostsee: Sondergutachten, Februar 2004 /SRU, Der Rat von Sachverständigen für Umweltfragen. Baden-Baden...
Concentration camp prose as primary source
This article considers the possibility of the use of Polish concentration camp prose as a primary source. Its features are analysed on the basis of its genre and subject characteristics. The works of a prominent representative of this literary trend help demonstrate the potential of concentration camp short stories as primary sources.
1. Боровский ...
The use of renewable energy sources in the Kaliningrad region: Current state and prospects
This paper examines the current condition and development prospects of the fuel and energy industry of the Kaliningrad region specified in regional programmes. The authors compare the potentials of different renewable energy sources and provide information on the exploitation of different renewable energy objects in the region. The article presents a preliminary assessment of the thermal capacity necessary for the residential area of an ecovillage with a population of 50,...
Immanuel Kant’s House in Königsberg: Attempt at a 3D Reconstruction
... make it possible to present a virtual picture of the various rooms, reconstruct the decorations and furniture characteristic of a Prussian urban dwelling in late eighteenth — early nineteenth centuries. With the help of 3D modelling and historical sources a realistic model of Kant’s house has been created, showing both the exterior and the interior. In addition to the paucity of sources, the task was complicated by technical problems due to the need to recreate several rooms at one location simultaneously....
The Place of Hermann Cohen’s Ideas in the Philosophy of Dialogue
My aim is to prove that Hermann Cohen was not only a philosopher of dialogue but has played an exceedingly important role in the history of that current of thought. His books Ethics of Pure Will (1904) and Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism (1919) offer a detailed analysis of the relationships between I and Thou, I and It, I and We. In the first book these relationships are considered from the ethical-legal point of view and in the second from the viewpoint of religious ...
Translation of sociolect texts
... addresses the fundamental issue of variability within a language and aims at studying the specific fragment of the Russian language of the XXth century — Soviet camp sociolect within the frameworks of contrastive sociolectology. Sociolect nature of the source text is viewed as one of the factors increasing the degree of text untranslatability. The author dwells on the nature of adaptation interventions, which a translator needs to perform to render the specificity of the Soviet camp social dialect ...
Alchemic symbols as a means of psychoanalytical description in N. Kononov's story «Source of Injury»
The story «The Source of Injury» by Nikolay Kononov is as a psychoanalytic report that has a therapeutic effect for the narrator. The characteristics of the three main characters are considered in terms of their alchemical symbolism. This point of view makes it possible ...
Corpus-based studies in conference interpreting
Corpus-based interpreting studies (CIS) are a relatively recent “[…] Off-shoot of Corpus-based Translation Studies” to quote the seminal paper (1998) by the late Miriam Shlesinger, a constant source of inspiration for the T&I community. This line of research is now gaining ground in both conference interpreting and community interpreting. The present paper focuses on conference interpreting and covers the evolution of the concept of interpreting ...
The Name of Prophet Abraham in the Old Russian Literature of XI—XIII centuries
... text and the historical context. In: B. A. Uspenskii, F. B. Uspenskii. Fakty i znaki: issledovaniya po semiotike istorii [Facts and signs: research on the semiotics of history]. Moscow. pp. 42—71 (in Russ.).
Danilevskij, I. N., 2004. The Bible as the source of the Tale of Bygone Years and its prior corpuses. In: Povest vremennyh let: germenevticheskie osnovy istochnikovedeniya letopisnyh tekstov [The Tale of Bygone Years: Hermeneutical foundations of the source study of annalistic texts]. Moscow. ...
On the Dual Role of the Translator of Poetry and the Division of Roles
... with the roles and functions of a translator of poetry. The study identifies certain components of the process, within which a translator acts simultaneously as a transmitter of the original culture, a mediator between the reader and the author of the source text, a co-author, a linguistic innovator, a poet, and a linguist. The two latter roles are crucial for translating poetry. Translators of poetry create ‘their own’ texts. It is obvious that they cannot distance themselves completely from their ...