The second round of the All-Ukrainian competition of student research papers in the specialty "Translation" took place on April 8-9, 2021 at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. More than 60 works were submitted to the competition, the authors of which represented higher education institutions from different parts of Ukraine.
The works of our students, Yelyzaveta Avdeeva and Elizaveta Samoilova, graduates of the bachelor's level of higher education, took part in the competition. Based on the review results, the girls' works were recommended for defense at the final scientific and practical conference, the grand opening of which took place on April 8, 2021, on the Zoom platform.
Within the framework of the work of four sections, the participants had the opportunity to present their research, which together cover a variety of relevant topics in the field of translation studies. In particular, students discussed the linguistic-cognitive, socio-cultural and pragmatic features of translation, the problems of artistic and branch translation, terminological standardization, localization of video games and even the reproduction of English-language neo-visual. A significant number of reports addressed the issue of reproducing the author's idiosyncrasies of modern writers. During the meeting of the Sectoral Competition Commission, the final results of the competition were approved.
The work of Yelyzaveta Samoilova "Proper names and ways of their translation using the means of the target language (based on the material of Rick Riordan's novel "Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse" / "Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse") under the guidance of the senior teacher of the Department of English Philology and Translation Elena Yuriivna Koroleva was awarded a III degree diploma.
The encouraging nomination "For the originality of the presentation of a scientific work" was awarded to Yelyzaveta Avdeeva's work "The concept of a character and the peculiarities of its reproduction in an English-Ukrainian literary translation (based on the material of the series of novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery "Anne of Green Roofs" translated by Anna Vovchenko) under the supervision of Docent of the Department of English Philology and Translation Olena Anatoliivna Yasinetskaya.
Congratulations, colleagues, on the victory! We hope that the experience gained will become the foundation for further professional achievements!