Features of the Russian School of Interpreting

Abstract

This article examines the main features of the modern Russian school of interpreting. The relevance of Chinese researchers’ attention to the Russian translation school is primarily due to the rapid development of relations between the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China in the field of politics, economy, culture, science and education, the need to ensure mutual understanding in the dialogue between Russia and China, and also professional translators’ interest in the formation of new approaches and effective teaching methods. The purposes of the article are to consider the main periods of the formation of the Russian school of interpreting, to build a history of the development of interpreting in Russia in the 20th and 21st centuries. On the basis of the analysis, the author concludes that the Soviet school as well as the modern Russian school which has inherited educational traditions from the Soviet one, both have unique features that distinguish them from Western translation/interpreting schools.

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