RENDERING LINGUOCULTURAL UNITS IN TRANSLATION: EVIDENCE FROM ENGLISH, RUSSIAN, AND UZBEK
Keywords:
linguocultural unit, culture-specific item, translation strategy, English, Russian, Uzbek, pragmatics.Abstract
This article examines how linguocultural units are rendered in translation on the basis of English, Russian, and Uzbek material. The study focuses on culture-bound words, symbolic markers, etiquette formulas, and social realia that resist direct equivalence. Its aim is to identify recurrent translation strategies and to explain how semantic and pragmatic effects shift when such units move across languages and readerships. The analysis draws on a small trilingual corpus and combines descriptive translation studies with semantic, contextual, and pragmatic methods. The findings show that borrowing and glossing preserve cultural density, while adaptation and neutralization increase readability but may weaken symbolic force. The most successful solutions balance semantic precision with audience-oriented mediation. [3], [4], [5], [14] Keywords: linguocultural unit, culture-specific item, translation strategy, English, Russian, Uzbek, pragmatics.
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