Object Identification Barrier in Religious Intercultural Communication with Confessionally Different Participants: Translating Orthodox Agyonyms

Ponomareva Svetlana Nikolayevna, Shavrina Uliana Andreyevna

The article deals with the issues of intercultural religious discourse on the material of the English and Russian languages. The research material was informational messages posted on the website of the Department for External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church. The subject of the research is the methods of translating proper names. Of interest are hagioanthroponyms as a special case of hagionyms, from the point of view of their identification function in the process of intercultural interaction in English. In the context of interfaith and linguistic differences, inaccuracies in the transmission of hagioanthroponyms can serve as an obstacle to successful communication. Also, a certain communicative barrier is the variability in the nomination of the same persons (saints, clergy, etc.)

Keywords:Intercultural religious discourse, proper noun, agyonym, agyoanthroponyms, identification function, nomination variability.