LINGUISTIC PECULIARITIES OF SOFTWARE LOCALIZATION

The article is devoted to the analysis of linguistic aspects of software localization. The relevance of the presented research is determined by the fact that localization, being situated at the junction of rapidly developing computer technologies and modern translation technologies, has become an important factor in the success of the software development business in different languages all over the world. At the same moment, localization, as an important element of the information culture of a student of the linguistics, focused on translation activity, is just beginning to be introduced into their educational process. The article demonstrates the results of the study. The peculiarities of a localization translation are revealed. The methods of work of a group of translators with a web of the original language and several target languages are shown. The language differences in the language pairs (English-Russian and EnglishFrench) in texts related to the software have been clarified. The directions of usage of the obtained results in the educational process (during lessons of technical translation, in the development of a computer practical work, in the implementation of training projects for localization) are proposed.