INTERLINGUAL LACUNAE AS A MEANS OF REFLECTING THE SPECIFICS OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE (BASED ON THE STORY OF CHEKHOV’S “CHAMBER No. 6”)

Abstract

The article considers lacunae in the story of A.P. Chekhov “Chamber No. 6” translated into German by Barbara Conrad. The relevance and novelty of the study is that the interlanguage lacunae in this work are studied for the first time, and there are no studies related to translations into German of this story. When translating artistic texts, a lacuna as a phenomenon appears when there is no correspondence in another language for the word of one language, which is always a signal of the presence of cultural-specific features in the original text. Using the classification of lacunae of L.V. Muravyov, having analyzed the text of the story of A.P. Chekhov, the researcher reveals translation-related, stylistic, absolute, absolute vacant, vector-related lacunae; ethnographic: absolute ethnographic, vector ethnographic, associative lacunae; and zero lacunae. The analysis of the results is reflected in the diagram, which shows that the most numerous are stylistic (38.6%) and absolute lacunae (31.9%), and the rarest are zero (2.4%) and associative (1.2%) lacunae.