The diffsculties of translating business letters and agreements

Urgency
Today, in the era of globalization, when many companies are increasing their business coverage and cooperating with enterprises in foreign countries, the issue of business correspondence is becoming more relevant than ever.

Purpose
The purpose of the diploma work is to analyze business documentation in order to determine the features and difficulties of translating official documents and identify translation strategies.

Object and subject
The object of the study is modern business documentation in English.
The subject of the study is the features of translating the speech behavior of the authors of business documentation from Russian into English and from English into Russian.

Tasks:
Define the concept of translation in relation to business correspondence as an act of intercultural communication.
Identify features of the translation of business correspondence and documentation;
Develop a strategy for the correct translation of official-business style texts.

Translation as a process of intercultural communication.
Translation is:
The process of interlanguage and intercultural communication
Bilingualism
Transfer of information with preservation of meaning
A discourse is a text placed in a real situation, not taken away from the environment in which it was created and, accordingly, should be perceived.

Features of business texts:
Officiality
Example: «Dear Mr…», “Yours sincerely”, “I look forward to hearing from you”, «Faithfully yours»

Accuracy
Rich food, rich wine and rich women… - «роскошные обеды, дорогие вина и шикарные дамы»
to order large size parts, large size machines, large size… - «больших размеров», не «огромные, громадные, здоровые».

Briefness
Ltd, LLC, etc., v.v, e.g and another

Standardness
In Russian - 15.04.2022
In American - 04.15.2022

Strategies
Comparison of cultural contexts
Identification of communicative intentions, meaning
Analysis of the text characteristics of the document
Comparison from an expert point of view (templates)