Didactic aspects of translatological trilinguism

Abstract

In the era of extremely rapid intellectual and social transformations the role of translatological trilingualism is expanding in both cross-cultural interaction and teaching languages and translation studies. To date, researchers have assigned to trilingualism the status of a special form of multilingualism, which reflects the mechanism of the formation of a linguistic and social personality, which has unlimited pedagogical, psychological and didactic potential. The article reveals the available studies on trilingialism both in Russia and abroad, as well as the potential for their implementation in the educational process. In addition to conventional trilingualism that covers the anthropological, sociolinguistic and sociocultural components, there is another field where trilingualism is characterized by presence of the same text in three languages – that is the field of literary translation that deals with transferring a work of fiction from one language into another language through an intermediary one. Thus, the role of the Russian language as a cultural mediator assisting in translation of the world literature into the languages of the peoples of Russia is increasing. The authors assume application of the trilingual model to expand the functions of AI. The Master’s programme on “Theory of Translation Studies, Cross-cultural and Cross-lingual Communication”, implemented at Kazan Federal University, as well as the extra-curriculum educational courses and programmes being taught in Saint-Petersburg and Almaty, adduce evidence of both their efficiency and problems associated with introduction of three-vector methodological complexes.