SOME ASPECTS OF ENGLISH INTERNET NEOLOGISMS’ TRANSPOSITION INTO GEORGIAN
Keywords:
neologisms, virtual communication, translating strategiesAbstract
This article deals with the translation of English neologisms of computing, the Internet and virtual reality. The article is part of a more extensive study of modern day Media neologisms. The objective of the study is to determine the tendencies of translation of English Neologisms into Georgian, namely, to see what kind of neologisms are mostly transferred, what the main translation procedures and strategies are for their transposition, what are the possible reasons for choosing particular strategies of transposition and how this process affects the Georgian language. The analysis of the data shows that for computing and virtual reality concepts two dominant translation strategies are loan translation and transliteration, the latter prevalent in oral communication. The study also revealed that in many cases there are several transposition options. One peculiarityproved to be phonetic variations of Georgian transliterations of English words. Also the study showed that there is a tendency of the development of a special jargon – the variety of the Georgian language for virtual communication, which is quite different from English Net speak as it does not serve the purpose of shortening the contents of messages and which mainly consists of transferred and naturalized Englishwords for referring to different concepts and phenomena in virtual reality
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