Dr. Carlos F. Márquez Linares Dr. Enrique F. Quero Gervilla Doctoral Programme in Languages, Texts and Contexts Faculty of Translation and Interpreting university of granada

Direct Loan and Descriptive Translation

The DT and Direct Loan method is not represented by many examples. Even though the term components reproduce the graphic or phonetic form of a word, they can be based on the elements which have been previously borrowed into Russian. Nevertheless, some terms are directly created with the help of Direct Loan and descriptive elements for their terminological use.

1. Direct Loan and DT. Concretization and Assimilation.

The Direct Loan and DT method aims to concretize term content, thus making a term form concrete using descriptive elements. A term component retrieved by means of Direct Loan is often modified or assimilated to be integrated into the target language.

As a rule, this method is made up of neonyms in the source language, e.g. the term affiliate

represents such a case