The Importance of Knowing

Your Local Vernacular

Presented by :Aulia & Iline

Do You Realize It?

It is always preferable to translate from foreign into native, while interpretation work is simpler when done the other way around.

One Special Situation

Sometimes you hear the speaker suddenly desires to saturate normal speech with words

and expressions belonging to their local vernacular, which may or may not be your

own.

What is Local Vernacular?

Vernacular (noun)The language spoken in a particular area or by a particular group, especially one that is not the official or written language.

The Cossacks• The Cossacks live in the Rostov Region. They are a separate ethnic group.• The Cossacks have colorful and peculiar way of speaking.• Due to communist power in Russia, the existence of the Cossacks was limited.• The famous perestroika brought radical changes to every sphere of life in Russia.• In the late 1980s, a large number of Cossack school s were established.

The Writer’s Experience

• Trying to find "regular equivalents in English" was of no use as both sides insisted that I give the most precise interpretation with all the Cossack distinctiveness retained.

• The writer came to the ataman’s house. Mulberry tyutinas Balkon corridor

FACTS

• A vernacular tongue is, in effect, a very powerful means of self-determination.

• Officially, there are 100 ethnic groups in Russia.

ANOTHER FACT

• A person who knows the elements of dialectology can’t easily prove the fact that the vernacular of ( e.g the Don-country Cossacks) is no more than a dialect of the its nation (Russian) literary language. • Like any other Russian dialect, the Cossack vernacular manifests itself in pronunciation, stress, intonation (the first and last president of the USSR, Gorbachev, spoke with a strong South Russian accent) and, certainly vocabulary.

SHORTLY,

All local dialectical words and expressions can be divides to three categories:• Common Russian words used with different meanings.

confusing• Words derived from common Russian roots and retaining the

meaning of the latter. the words can be guessed

• Words which are practically unknown to the Russian language but are borrowed from other languages, such as Ukrainian, Kalmyk, Armenian and especially Turkic languages (this lexical layer reflects the history of the Cossacks and the way the community was formed) extremely difficult

KEEP IN YOUR MIND

• An interpreter does not have to treat distinctive local words as some kind of nuisance complicating and hampering his job.

• The value of a dialectal element, a word or phrase, as compared to the literary synonym, is usually in its greater expressive power, verve and originality, and in many cases denotative precision. Russian Literature

A Good Interpreter MUST

• Know his local vernacular and regard the specific language of his land as a rare and precious tool permitting him to express not just human thoughts and emotions, but also the inimitable nature of the people who use this language, their unique history, culture, and way of thinking.

THANK YOU