Contemporary military texts as a part of translation practical activity

Abstract

The article deals with the overview of the relevant problem – translation of Ukrainian military text into English.  The relevance of the problem under the conditions of full-scale enemy invasion is quite convincing. The peculiarity of the article is its connection with professional practice of Oles Honchar Dnipro National University students. Taking the abovementioned into account the aim of the article is the analysis of transformations having been used for the article material translation, their  appropriateness and the description of the practice results. To achieve this aim it is suggested to  concentrate on such tasks as the review of military translation manuals and theoretical papers focusing on the close problems, to define linguistic analysis directions in studying Ukrainian - English translation of military texts and translation transformations in the factual material (military news and heroes biographies on the local site "eDnipro").  Such traditional methods of linguistic analysis as descriptive and comparative are used in the article. The steps of work at the article include factual material accumulation, defining transformations used in translations, evaluation of the translation quality. 60 news and biographies have been analyzed at lexical, morphological, syntactic and stylistic levels, quantitative assessment has been done. Structure and terminological text fulfillment has been kept in general, transposition (92%), omission (22%), modulation (20%), addition (15%), generalization (12%) were used. The conclusions stress the role of translation practice in military text processing, but to overcome the tendency to word-for-word translation and to enlarge the number of transformations it is desirable to work out corresponding recommendations to improve future translator professional level.