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Abstract
This article is a contrastive study of deontic modal markers in three parallel texts. It analyses the modality system in the English, Russian and French texts of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights accounting for the ambiguity of some English modal verbs in legal texts and the difficulty in rendering them into a different language. The research reveals modal markers used to express deontic permission, deontic obligation and deontic prohibition in the three parallel texts; semantic similarities and discrepancies between these modal markers; and translation strategies employed to render the English modal markers into Russian and French. The article responds to the need for a systematic analysis of deontic modal markers in English, Russian and French due to the semantic and syntactic differences among the German, Romance and Slavic languages. The article concludes that French and Russian have more in common than French and English or Russian and English in terms of the deontic modality.
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ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries (http://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/elope) is a double-blind, peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes original research articles, studies and essays that address issues of English language, literature, teaching and translation. The guest editors, Jason Blake and Michelle Gadpaille, warmly invite contributors to submit original research for a special issue of the journal in honour of Margaret Atwood’s 80th birthday. Papers are solicited that focus on Atwood’s 21st-century work (excluding film and television adaptations). Potential topics include but are not limited to the following: Experiments in short prose and cross-generic forms Eco-critical engagement in prose or fiction; Apocalyptic Atwood Reception across cultures, languages and generations; global Atwood Translation and stylistic studies of 21st century works Poetic legacy Interdisciplinary approaches Humour.
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