Linguistic Security of Political Discourse in Terms of Translation Ecology (by the Material of Vladimir Putin’s Interviews and Their Translations into English)

Abstract

The aim of the study is to obtain objective scientific knowledge about linguistic security as a linguistic and ecological phenomenon while analysing political discourse in the translational aspect. The texts of interviews of Vladimir Putin to the American news channels NBC and CNBC and their translations into English are considered as the material of the study. Scientific novelty lies in the application of an interdisciplinary approach involving an integrated methodology; the eco-linguistic turn of the study corresponds to the current trends of Russian and foreign social and humanities research. Going through the stage of active formation, linguistic ecology needs to develop its own scope of research, theoretical, methodological and terminological base, as well as to search for practical areas of application of research results in keeping with the linguistic ecology paradigm. In the context of this study, an attempt to consider the phenomenon of linguistic security through the prism of the translation ecology of socio-political texts is made for the first time. As a result of the study, the main characteristics of translation in the field of political discourse that are relevant from the viewpoint of the translation ecology and linguistic security of the target text have been identified.

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Funding

The research funding from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (Ural Federal University Development Programme within the Priority-2030 Strategic Academic Leadership Programme) is gratefully acknowledged.

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• Received: November 17, 2022.
• Published: December 30, 2022.

Keywords

• лингвистическая безопасность
• лингвоэкология
• перевод
• экология перевода
• политический дискурс
• linguistic security
• linguistic ecology
• translation
• translation ecology
• political discourse

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