“MONEY” COMPONENT OF THE LEXICO-SEMANTIC GROUP “MONEY AND MONETARY SIGNS” IN TH. DREISER’S NOVEL “THE FINANCIER”AND IN ITS RUSSIAN TRANSLATION

Abstract

The article presents a statistical analysis of the use of the financial lexeme money in the literary text, which belongs to the lexico-semantic field “Finance”. The original text of Theodor Dreiser’s novel “The Financier” (1912) and its translation into Russian by M. Volosov, published in 1987, are used as research material. The lexemes related to finance are divided into lexico-semantic groups. Special attention is paid to the lexical and semantic group “Money and monetary signs”, which plays a key role in the development of the plot and possesses semantic meaning. The unique lexemes and their repetitions in the original and the translated texts are calculated and analyzed with the help of the Python programming language, which allows to obtain data on the frequency of financial terms in the novel’s content. The paper also analyzes how the translator coped with the task of translating lexical units with the money component. The results obtained are of practical importance and can be used in the learning process at special courses on literary translation.