THE STUDY OF LEXICAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE TRANSLATION OF ENGLISH FOLK TALES INTO RUSSIAN

Abstract

The article studies a problem of lexical transformations in the process of translating fiction. The objective of the study is to identify lexical transformations in the translation of English folk tales into Russian. The genre of the fairy tale has an important socio-cultural significance, it requires taking into account the specifics of the original, the identity of both cultures and the ability to transfer realities and culturally marked vocabulary into another language. The main part of the study presents a comparative analysis of lexical transformations identified in ten folk tales performed by N.V. Shereshevskaya, M.D. Litvinova, N.V. Budur, S.E. Taskom, M.I. Klyagina-Kondratieva. The authors propose a comparative description of the translation of proper names, concretization, generalization and modulation of various lexical units. The quantitative results of the practical work are presented in the form of diagrams. In the process of solving the tasks set, the authors came to the conclusion that the most frequent technique is concretization, less often – modulation and generalization. The results may be interesting for lexical transformation study and the research of grammar and stylistic peculiarities of folklore genre.