Special issues

Scheduled for publication - August 2023 (№ 3, 2023)

Cultural systems are dynamic and capable of restructuring and interaction. It necessitates addressing the process of mutual accommodation, in which various systems adapt and transform through their interactions. The cultural system is seen as the one where information (primarily linguistic information) circulates according to certain rules. The cultural system is capable of self-organization, restructuring and change. The concept of accommodation of cultural systems assumes that when in contact, cultural systems partially become similar to one another or, on the contrary, develop additional distinctive features. This results from the fact that cultural systems can reorganize and adjust to external influence. At the same time, any cultural system employs language. The study of the mechanisms of linguistic accommodation of cultural systems makes it possible to describe the dynamics of their mutual restructuring and subsequent self-organization. One of the most frequent examples of cultural accommodation is translation. But if the possibility of translation is obvious, the opposite case - non-translation - is of interest. For some reason, there are elements of cultural systems that are not subject to accommodation and should avoid it.

This issue of SLOVO will address the following problem areas:

• Non-translation caused by a variety of reasons - censorship, sacred texts, cultural differences, etc.

• The myth of untranslatability of certain texts as a reason for refusing to translate them: the myth of untranslatability of poetry and some sacred texts;

• Multilingualism and translation; 

• Non-translation from closely related languages;

• Traditional ways of non-translation of some elements of the text: epigraphs, direct speech, terms, surnames, titles, etc.

• Non-translation and commentary; should each case of non-translation be provided with a comment?

• Non-translation in music, opera and modern songs;

• Non-translation in cinematography;

• Non-translation in a philosophical text.

Guest editors: N. M. Azarova, S. Yu. Bochaver, K. M. Korchagin

Papers are to be submitted through the online submission system on the journal website https://journals.kantiana.ru/submit/

For any further information, please contact szolyan@kantiana.ru (Suren Tigranovich Zolyan)