Elimination of Ethnographic Lacunae during the Translation of G. Sh. Yakhina’s Novel “Zuleikha” into Chinese
The purpose of the research is to identify ethnographic lacunae in the Chinese translation of G. Sh. Yakhina’s novel “Zuleikha” and to study ways of their elimination. The paper pays special attention to the peculiarities of rendering the nation-specific corpus of Tatar vocabulary and phraseological units into Chinese. Scientific originality of the work lies in taking a comparative approach to studying G. Sh. Yakhina’s novel and its translation from the viewpoint of communication of national and cultural distinctions in Russian-to-Chinese translation. The results of the study demonstrate the main ways to compensate for lacunae in relation to the Russian-Chinese language pair.