Peculiarities of translating official business texts from English into Russian
Ntroduction: this paper deals with the peculiarities of translating official business documents. The Russian language has borrowed a lot of new business words and phrases from the English language. The question is, if it’s really necessary to save their original form or it’s better to try and find some ways to render them into Russian (including equivalents already existing in the target language). The aim of the paper is to analyze the possible strategies the translators use to create the text in the target language which could be read and comprehended as equal to the original document. Materials and Methods: the material for the study is presented by agreements, contracts and statutory documents made in an official business style. The research involved the following methods: inductive, comparative, descriptive methods based on the materials of official business texts. Results: as a result of the study, the definitions were given to such terms as “contract”, “regulatory legal act”, “legal document”, “legal reasoning”, “business letter” often used in official business documentation and legal sphere in general. The vocabulary of formal business style has been analyzed as well as the example of statutory documents translation from English into Russian were dwelt on. Discussion and Conclusions: interpretation of business documents is only possible with internal and external business knowledge. Text documents guarantee the consistency and accuracy. It is important to note that if translation is not accurate, the text of the document will be distorted and lose its meaning.