Identity

[Timothy D. Sergay]

Personal identity (ID) is of course lichnost', as in udostoverenie
lichnosti, but if you're looking for fully Russian equivalents for "national
identity," try googling for "natsional'naia samobytnost'," as in the title
of a recent international conference in Kazan, "Globalizatsiia i
natsional'naia samobytnost'" (which tatar.ru and UNESCO translated
nevertheless as "Globalization and National Originality"). I think you'll
find "national identity" and "natsional'naia samobytnost'" are functioning
in parallel.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Irina Zhulamanova" <zhulamanova at LINGUISTICS.UCSB.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 7:07 PM
Subject: [SEELANGS] Identity


> Dear colleagues,
>
> What is an elegant translation for'identity' in Russian? Identichnost'
> sounds
> unnatural.
>
> Irina
>
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