Olena Velychenko 
Candidate of Philological Sciences, Lecturer at the Department of Translation and Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, State Institution “South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky”, Odesa, Ukraine
E-mail: lepinapelina@gmail.com
ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8349-5621
Oleksandra Popova
Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Dean of the Foreign Languages Faculty,
State Institution “South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky”, Odesa, Ukraine
E-mail: alex-popova@ukr.net
ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6244-5473
Researcher ID https://publons.com/researcher/R-1107-2018/
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24195/2616-5317-2019-29-4
Key words: moral-ethical medical discourse, text, medical ethics, cross-cultural specificities, strategy of communicative-equal translation, tactics, translation operations.
The article is devoted to studying some cultural peculiarities of rendering English texts on moral-ethical medical discourse into Ukrainian and presented on the material of “Medical Ethics Manual” by The World Medical Association, Inc. The importance, originality and topicality of the research question are based on the need for thorough studying the means of realization, representation, actualization and rendering of cross-cultural relations between specialists and consumers in the field of English and Ukrainian healthcare. The authors of the study emphasize the importance for Ukraine of the experience exchange in order to strengthen the ties with economically developed countries, as well as to improve the level of professional and ethical training of current and future physicians.
The purpose of the article is to study specifics and originality of the Ukrainian translator’s work on finding and using correct translation operations for adequate cross-cultural rendering of English texts on medical ethics, taking into account the appropriate strategy and tactics of translation.
The studied type of the text combines the features of both medical and moral-ethical discourses, thus causing some difficulties in the adequate translation from English into Ukrainian. The functions of the text, the types of information contained therein, the structural-component, semantic and lexical elements are determined, especially interesting and important in creating an adequate translation, taking into account the cultural specificity of the source text and the target audience in the translation. The emphasis is placed on the expediency of using the strategy of communicative-equal translation by means of some relevant tactics and operations, among which the most appropriate and correct ones were determined.
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