ONOMASTIC REALITIES IN ROBERT VAN GULIK’S STORIESAND METHODS OF THEIR TRANSLATION INTO CHINESEAND RUSSIAN LANGUAGES

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of Chinese onomastic realities in Robert Hans van Gulik’s detective stories and their translations into Chinese and Russian languages. The purpose of the article is to analyze onomastic realities, reflecting the national and cultural specific of the country, examine its etymological components, and identify the main regularities of application of the translation methods. To achieve this goal we used the following research methods: comparative method: analysis of English, Russian and Chinese lexemes, reflecting national and cultural code of China with the aim of finding similarities and differences; descriptive method: inventory of realities; quantitative method: calculation of the analyzed lexemes in Chinese, English and Russian languages; analytical method: analysis of scientific literature on the research topic; comparison method: identifying similarities and differences between Chinese and Russian translations of realities. The relevance of the research is explained by the fact that Chinese onomastic realities and the ways of their translation into Chinese and Russian are not sufficiently studied yet. This study revealed the most vivid examples of onomastic realities and the main ways of their translation into Chinese and Russian languages.