PHRASEOLOGY AND TRANSLATION: CURRENT PROBLEMS BY TRANSLATING VERBAL IDIOMS IN RUSSIAN AND SPANISH LANGUAGES

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Abstract. Phraseology in the field of teaching represents an area little studied so far as far as translation studies are concerned. Despite the existence of materials and articles on the didactics of phraseological units during foreign language learning, these studies do not take into account the needs of the translator, that is, they address the subject of translation but from a purely linguistic point of view without bearing in mind the cultural approach, which makes it difficult to find translations for phraseological units when translating. In this sense, it is true that a new didactic approach must be applied that allows addressing issues such as the identification of phraseologisms in texts taking into account the context and communicative situation, justification of the type of phraseologism, compression of the literal meaning that comes by default and its idiomatic interpretation in a concrete context, as well as the search for correspondences by establishing lexicological and textual homologues. To date, many authors highlight the importance of phraseological units within the communicative competence of a native speaker and the need to promote phraseological competence in students of foreign languages. However, due to the shortage of reference works and didactic materials, the teaching and learning process of these units is hampered. The particularities of the translator, as a mediator not only linguistic but also cultural, require a pedagogical approach of their own in terms of training in phraseology aimed, in principle, at all types of students of Spanish as a foreign language, and above all, students specialized in Translation and interpretation. Therefore, in this article we present the importance of a teaching methodology that can be applied in our phraseology and translation classes (Russian- Spanish, Spanish-Russian), as well as addressing, among other aspects, the identification of phraseological units in texts, the understanding of its literal and idiomatic meaning according to the context of use, as well as the search for correspondences through the establishment of lexicological correspondences.

Keywords: phraseological units, context, idiomaticity, cultural element, foreign languages

Pablo Ramírez Rodríguez

Peoples ́ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) Moscow, Russia/Spain
e-mail: pabloatanasev@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6168-3736

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