PECULIARITIES OF TRANSLATING ENGLISH NOUN COMPOUNDS INTO UKRAINIAN

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of translating English noun compounds in D. Eggers’ novel “The Circle” into Ukrainian. The approaches to defining the concepts of compounding and compounds were described. One hundred English noun compounds and their Ukrainian equivalents were analyzed, the translation methods of these lexical units were determined. It was established that to convey English noun compounds in the Ukrainian version of D. Eggers’ novel “The Circle” the following translation methods were used: selection of dictionary equivalents (40%), loan translation (39%), explication (11%) and various types of transcoding, in particular: transcription (4%), practical transliteration (2%), mixed transcoding (2%) and adaptive transcoding (2%). Most often, the selection of dictionary equivalents and loan translation were applied, which made it possible to preserve the semantic integrity of the compounds and made them accessible for understanding by Ukrainian readers. Loan translation was also used in cases of conveying the meaning of proper names – occasional author’s formations that contained the word Circle and other components associated with the company. Less common methods were explication and types of transcoding, which contributed to the compactness of the translation, and also helped to preserve the authenticity of the noun compounds used by the author of the novel. To translate the most used N+N structural type of noun compounds from English into Ukrainian, T. Boiko used 5 methods, which are dominated by word combinations in which N1 was translated into adjective. This can be explained by the fact that adjective-noun constructions are more common in the Ukrainian language, unlike English, in which noun-noun constructions are often used.