TRANSLATING REALIA, LACUNAE, ETHNOGRAPHISMS

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Equivalent-lacking words signify notions lacking in the target language and culture. They are sometimes called ...

untranslatable words

From which language was the word realia derived...

(derived from Latin realis, pl. realia), or culturally loaded words.

Reasons for using equivalent-lacking words can be various: one of them is...

extralinguistic: lack of a similar thing in the target culture;

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