Meeta Narain : Professor , Centre of Russian Studies , SLL & CS , Jawaharlal Nehru University . Areas of interest : Teaching Russian as a foreign language - Practical Russian language , Communicative Russian skills , Translation Studies - Theory and Practice of translation , Techniques of translation , Translation of newspaper , social science and business materials from Russian into English and vice - versa . Former Chairperson of CRS ( 2016-2018 ) , she has written books on Language skills and Translation Studies . She has several papers to her credit , presented and published in International and National journals and conferences.
She is the recipient of Dr. Radhakrishnan Millennium National Teachers Award ( 2010 ) , Education Award for Excellence ( 2016 ) , Modernites Award for Excellence ( 2019 ) and the Pushkin Medal ( 2019 ) , for her contribution in promoting and strengthening the field of Russian Philology and Translation Studies
About The Book
An Introduction to the Business World " is a compendium of textual material , which introduces to the readers the different sectors of the business and financial world - banking , insurance , tax system , currency , stock markets , industrial finance and business correspondence It also covers the linguistic , semantic and stylistic nuances of these genres with their application in the financial world . This is carried out with the help of varied texts from these fields and their translation from Russian into English , acquainting the readers with not only the specific genres of the business world , but also enabling them to develop their skills of translation in this field . Hence , the textbook is systematically compiled , dealing with the understanding of the sectors of the business world on one hand to the application of the methodological principles of translation on the other . The author hopes that the text book " An Introduction to the Business World " proves to be a useful tool towards exploring the business world , for all interested in it - theoretically and practically !
