Project title: Functional Equivalents in the Source Languages (EN/DE/RU/LV) in the Linguistic Landscape of Modern Cities of the 21st Century: the Traditional and Variable Aspects

Project No.18-02

Program: VUAS internal funding for research and development

Aims, brief description: to undertake technology based interdisciplinary practical/theoretical research on functional equivalents between the source language (English, Russian, German) and the target language (Latvian) in urban signs of modern 21st century cities by defining translations and lacunas of the respective functional units.

Project manager: Guntars Dreijers, Dr.philol., Assoc.Prof. 

Project realization period: 18.06.2018–31.12.2018.

Budget for the project: 4800 EUR