Translation Features of Modern it Terminology from English into Ukrainian

Abstract

The article considers the features and basic techniques of translating modern IT terminology from English into Ukrainian. We have found out that the IT terminology of the English language is currently actively developing and plays an essential role as a part of the scientific and technical discourse of the English language. Other languages often borrow English IT terms. Therefore, they are international in their nature. The translation of such terminology is associated with specific difficulties, including requirements for accuracy and adequacy of scientific and technical translation, difficulties in choosing the correct translation equivalent depending on the context and traditions of translation of such terms, and a large number of abbreviations and acronyms in IT terminology. The article analyses the features of the translation of IT terms from English into Ukrainian through the use of dictionary definitions of English terms and their equivalents, translation analysis, as well as quantitative analysis of the obtained results. As a result, we have established that the value of the scientific and technical text depends on the accuracy of terms translation. The article examines the main approaches to the modern English IT terminology translation, as well as the peculiarities of the use of these techniques depending on their structural and semantic properties. We have found that the most frequent methods of translating IT terms into Ukrainian are equivalent and analogue translation, transliteration, and loan translation. Such language and translation transformations as preservation of the Latin spelling of the IT term, modulation, grammatical substitutions are also often used.