Ekaterina - Tereshko

Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie der Wetenschappen

This article examines the perception of ‘rare’ and ‘common’ languages through literary translations. The study is based on the materials from De Bezige Bij Publishing House in the Netherlands, comparing the periods of 2010—2013 and 2020—2023. A significant increase in the role of translators is reflected in the rise of translation share in the publ...

In linguistics, there is a widespread belief that the article cannot be in the stressed position, because if it is in this position, we perceive it as a (short) form of the indicative pronoun. However, the materials of the Dutch language refute this statement, telling us that at least in some languages the article can take on the accent. In Dutch,...

In this study, we examine the strategies translators have at their disposal to render the meaning of Dutch modal particles in the Russian language. Modal particles are difficult to translate because the meaning of these words is abstract, highly context-dependent and sometimes open to multiple interpretations. Based on parallel Dutch-Russian texts...

When you come to the Netherlands, you don’t expect to see poems in Russian, Chinese, Berber, or North American Indian on city walls. Even more surprising is the lack of translation or explanation of these texts. However, the (non)translation of murals in the Netherlands has a social background: at the same time when the poetry projects were most ac...

Since the sixties of the twentieth century, different algorithms for using poetic texts in the transformation of urban space have emerged. Poetic discourse is being increasingly contextualized in space, whose role in the contemporary cultural system and specific tasks of urbanism has been growing. In the urban context, poetry may acquire different...

The article considers ways of transferring the meaning of Dutch modal particles in Russian text. Modal particles in Dutch act as communicative markers that are specific to Dutch culture. In contrast to the popular opinion, that in translating modal particles the method of omission prevails, this article examines the lexical, grammatical, and syntac...

The article describes the results of an associative experiment conducted in 2017, which involved 235 respondents. The author identified stereotyped characteristics of animals in Dutch. On the one hand, the characteristics manifest themselves in free associations with the zoonym. On the other hand, they can be obtained from sustainable comparisons,...