Stoianova T. Translation Peculiarities of UNESCO Legal Documents Protecting Rights to Education

The presented thesis is dedicated to the problem of translation of UNESCO legal documents protecting the right to education (from English into Chinese). The genre and stylistic peculiarities of these documents are examined, the system of legal terms is presented, the principal aspects of translation theory and practice that deal with legal documents are stated. Generalized classifications of terms are suggested. The strategies, tactics, and operations present in the realm of contemporary translation theory studies of legal documents are enumerated and codified. The peculiarities and quantitative data concerning the usage of the above-mentioned strategies, tactics, and operations in the process of adequate translation of the enumerated lexical and grammatical features of UNESCO legal documents protecting rights to education (from English into Chinese) are presented, special attention is paid to linguacultural specificity of these two languages.