Political Correctness in Translation

Translation has been typically seen as a process of decoding the overall meaning of the source language, both linguisti-cally and culturally. Political correctness that hidden between the lines and words is one of the challenges in translation. This paperpresents several examples of political correctness in different text types, provides the principles of doing politically correct transla-tions. This paper also takes a look at issues of the increase in politically correct words and different cultural background in translat-ing.