THE PROBLEM OF PRESERVATION OF THE NATIONAL CHARACTER OF UKRAINIAN SONGS IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF LITTLE RUSSIAN SONGS (BASED ON GOGOL’S STORIES “THE FAIR OF SOROCHINETZ” AND “A NIGHT IN MAY OR DROWNED MAIDEN”)
The term “the national character of the literary creation” is in the base of our research showing how the language material can reflect peculiar features of a certain culture. Language and culture meet each other with the help of a concept. Usually an interpreter translates only a conceptual component, as a rule ignoring an associative-cultural one. In our work we reveal lexemes which reflect national concepts of Little Russia and analyze English translation of them. On the basis of Little Russian songs from the stories “The fair of Sorochinetz” and “A night in May or drowned maiden” we are revealing lexemes which reflect national Little Russian concepts, which are given in the texts of songs as ethnographic and political realia and analyzing a specific character of their translation into English.
Keywords: national character, concept, non-equivalent lexicon, realia, denotative meaning, significative meaning, connotation, songs of Little Russia
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