Institute of Philology

Head - О.І. Cherednychenko, doctor of philological sciences, professor
Phone Numbers - 239-34-09; 34-09
Room №66
E-mail: tpprm@univ.kiev.ua

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The sub department was founded in 1981, in 2001 it assumed the name of the great Ukrainian poet and interpreter Mykoly Zerova. Since the time of foundation of the department Doctor of Philology, professor, Honoured Scientist and Technician, academician AS HEEU Cherednychenko O.I. heads it.

There are 2 doctors, professors, 14 associate professors, Candidates of science, 9 regular lecturers, 2 scientific co-workers and 15 postgraduate students who work at this sub-department. In the channel of inter-department topic “European languages and cultures in the context of globalization of the world processes” department develops the subtopic “Genre and stylistic peculiarities of translation of the text of different genres”. For the last 5 years 6 theses have been defended, 4 scientific conferences were held by the postgraduate students, doctoral candidates and competitors of the department. The major directions of the researches are: history, theory, critics of the translation; methodic of tuition in translation and interpretation, sociolinguistic aspects of translation.

Department prepares bachelors, specialists and masters on the occupation of “translation” (French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian languages) with specialization: translation or interpreting.

Textbooks and manuals, author programs, which provided by the department, were developed by the professors Getman Z.O., Cherednichenkom O.I., Senior lecturers Andrievskoyu E.M., Vengrenievskuyu M.A., Verboyu G.G., Voevodskoyu V.S., Gnatyukom A.D., Kalustovoyu O.M., Maksymenko O.V., Orlychenko O.V., Pryhodkom M.P., Saenkom S.G., Shyshkovym V.V., lecturers Gerasymenko I.P., Chernienko G.V. and others. Textbooks on theory and practice of translation in French and Spanish, manuals on the contrastive grammar and stylistic, business, fictional translation, foreign languages practices, dictionaries are among them.

Department keeps up scientific connections with higher educational establishments in Ukraine and abroad (Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Serbia and Montenegro, Moldova).

Lecturers of the Chair provide the delivery of normative and special subjects throughout I – V year at Translation sub-department, namely:

Introduction to translation studies
Theory of translation and interpretation
Compared grammar of Romanic and Ukrainian languages
Compared lexicology of Romanic and Ukrainian languages
Compared stylistics of Romanic and Ukrainian languages
Practical written translation
Practical consecutive and simultaneous translation
Technique of elocution
Terminology studies
Computer lexicography and translation
Literary translation and editing
Translation of business documentation
Juridical translation
Technical-scientific translation
The basis of professional activity of a written/oral translator, etc.

Topics for degree thesis:

The means of rendering of lexico-semantical field of upbringing of J.-J. Rousseau’s works in translations into Ukrainian
Conceptual difficulties of European’s Charter regional languages and minorities` languages translation.
Medical instruction genre in the original and translated versions (based on the material of the French and Ukrainian languages)
Gender aspects of mass media texts translation (based on the material of the French and Ukrainian languages)
Specialties of translation of French film industry and performing artistic texts from French into Ukrainian.
Specialties of precise lexis rendering in interpreting.
Rendering of French artistic devices of forensic speech in Ukrainian translations.
Rendering of emotive dialogical constructions in translation from French into Ukrainian (based on the novel “Journey to the end of the night” by L.-F. Celine)
Rendering of French epithet constructions of literary description in Ukrainian translation (after the novel “Golden Fruit” by N. Sarrot).
Lingvo-stylistical peculiarities of rendering of works by Ukrainian authors of the XIX-XX centuries in French translations (based on the material of Ukrainian literature anthology from XI to XX centuries)
Analysis of translations of novels by Pascal Laine “The flee maker” and “Irrevolution” in Ukrainian translations.
Compression and decompression in translations of “The Plague” by A. Camus.
Specialties of translation of French Internet discourse.
Subject-pronoun ellipsis as a difficulty in translation from Ukrainian into Spanish.
Problems of lexical and grammatical relevance in translation of the Bible into Spanish, English and Ukrainian languages.
Verbalization of nature’s concept in the poetry of Antonio Machalo and its rendering in Ukrainian translations.
Explication of modality in translation from Spanish into Ukrainian.
Specialties of Spanish phraseological units rendering in the works of contemporary Ukrainian authors.
Exclamatory sentences in contemporary Spanish language and their rendering in Ukrainian translations.
Interaction of different terminological systems in special Spanish and Portuguese texts and their rendering in Ukrainian translations (on the example of sports and legal terminological systems).
Translation of Ukrainian onomastics into Spanish (based on the material of printed and electronic media in Spain and Latin America)
Lexico-grammatical transformations in rendering of causativity semantics in translations from Spanish into Ukrainian.
Specialties of translation of Spanish and Italian tourist guides into Ukrainian.
Specialties of translation of Spanish metaphors into Ukrainian (based on the materials of sport press).
Lexico-semantic specialties of Spanish legal texts and their rendering in Ukrainian (based on the material of statutory documents).
Somatical phraseological units in Spanish and their Ukrainian analogues.
Loss and compensation in translation of proverbs of Spanish literary prose.
Lingvo-stylistical specialties of Spanish poetry translation into Ukrainian (based on the example of works by A. Machado, F. Lorka, H. Himenes).