RUSSIAN-ENGLISH METHODS OF TRANSLATION OF NON-EQUIVALENT PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS)

Abstract

In the article the research of the methods of translating non-equivalent Russian and English phraseological (lacunar) units is presented. The article considers four ways of translating non-equivalent phraseological units – phraseological loans, lexical, descriptive and combined translations. The research focuses on the structural and grammatical organization. The method of phraseological-semantic and component analysis of non-equivalent phraseological units in the Russian and English languages is applied. Having analyzed more than 1750 Russian and English non-equivalent phraseological units, the author claims that the choice of the method of translation depends on the characteristics of their component composition, as well as on the national-cultural specifics of native speakers and the perception of the world around them. The analysis showed that in quantitative terms, descriptive translation is the most productive way of translating non-equivalent phraseological units (49% of the studied phraseological units).