Special considerations in translating Pitirim Sorokin’s work “City and country” (Prague, 1923)

UDC 808.1:81`38

https://doi.org/10.20339/PhS.6-20.227 

Sergieva Natalia S.,

Doctor of Philology, Professor of the Management and

Marketing Department

Pitirim Sorokin Syktyvkar State University

 e-mail: nsergieva@yandex.ru

Smith Roger W.,

Independent Scholar based in New York City, USA,

MA, Journalism,

he is host of the site Pitirim Sorokin

https://pitirimsorokin.com/

e-mail: brandeis106@gmail.com

The article deals with some distinctive features of an individual writer’s style — that of the eminent Russian-American sociologist Pitirim Sorokin — and a schema for its transmission when translated into English. Our research is based on a Russian-language article from the Prague period of Sorokin’s life. The authorial style of Sorokin is characterized by a combination of “scholarly” and acutely polemical journalism, which requires special techniques for transmitting the content and style of the original when translating.

Keywords: individual style, translation, rhetoric, scholar, journalism, expressiveness.

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