TRANSLATION STUDIES RESEARCH BY YURIY O. ZHLUKTENKO

Abstract

The article constitutes an overview of translation studies approaches and views by professor Y.O. Zhluktenko, a prominent linguist, translation studies scholar, lexicographer, language teaching methodologist, sociolinguist and translator. As soon as the work of a researcher cannot be considered outside the scholarly context he works in, the article offers a short review of the main tendencies in vogue in Soviet translation studies in 1960–80’s. The article is based on a thorough analysis of the papers by Y.O. Zhluktenko connected with translation studies, as a result of which the scholar’s views published in different articles were systematized.