ON THE PECULIARITIES OF THE ENGLISH PENITENTIARY DISCOURSE RENDERING IN UKRAINIAN TRANSLATION

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of the English penitentiary discourse rendering in Ukrainian translation. The urgency of the work is due to the urgent need for a comprehensive study of penitentiary texts. The objective of the research is to outline the peculiarities of penitentiary discourse, the study of different approaches to the interpretation of this phenomenon and the formulation of the key rules of translating English penitentiary discourse into Ukrainian. This resulted in the following tasks: to clear out the notion of discourse in linguistics and its specificity; to characterize the structural features of penitentiary discourse; to study the peculiarities of terms in penitentiary discourse and to analyze translation transformations employed in rendering English penitentiary discourse in Ukrainian.The comprehensive approach to the research allowed to enlarge and extend the scope of the terminological lexes, to reveal the linguistic means of penitentiary discourse realization as well as strategies, techniques and transformations employed in rendering English penitentiary texts in Ukrainian translation. As for the lexical transformations employed, their distribution may be characterized as follows. Loan translation was used in 25 cases or 12,5 %, transliteration in 22 cases or 11,0 %, lexico-semantic replacements in 69 cases or 34,5 %, concretization in 27 cases or 13,5 %, generalization in 16 cases or 7,0 %, modulation in 23 cases or 11,5 %. As for the grammatical transformations employed, their distribution may be characterized as follows. Grammatical replacements occur in 9 cases or 4,5 %, transpositions in 8 cases or 4,0 %, the null translation or omission in 3 units or 1,5 %. The practical value of the article and its efficiency may be grounded by a great demand for the qualified study of such issues as the speech of legislation and execution. The perspective may be seen in the compilation of a thesaurus or glossary of penitentiary terms.