Increasing the Informativeness of Translating Korean Business Letters Syntactic Constructions into the Russian Language
The article proposes methods of increasing the information capacity of syntactic constructions of Korean business letters when they are translated into the Russian language: adaptation of the source language syntax to the cultural peculiarities of the target language, shifting lexical elements from one sentence to another, changing the order of the sentences, reduction or expansion of content, editing paragraph structure, decoding of expressiveness and ordering of the paragraphs. The effectiveness of these methods is proved by the example of the Korean-Russian translation of business letters. In the present-day conditions of pluralism of languages and cultures, the social significance of translation keeps growing, with more focus on making business correspondence succinct, laconic, precisely suited to the aim of the letter, and adapted to the target language culture. And syntax plays an importance part in the total effectiveness of the letter. The key point of a business letter, its basis and the main goal is its informative value. That is why, when translating business correspondence from Korean to Russian, the translator is free to modify the original syntax in order to gain maximum informative value. The methods employed consist chiefly in minor transformations so as to observe the traditions of Russian business correspondence. It is virtually impossible to transmit information from the sender to the recipient absolutely identically - not even within one common language (as experience, knowledge and other personal characteristics of communicants vary). Thence the vital importance of increasing the information content of the message, some of which is based on the expressive capacity of Russian syntax.