AMERICAN CULTURE-SPECIFIC VOCABLUARY AT THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND THE PROBLEM OF ITS INTERLANGUAGE TRANSLATION (BASED ON THE RUSSIAN TRANSLATIONS OF THE NOVEL "TITAN" BY THEODORE DREISER)

Abstract

The article deals with the issues of culture-specific
vocabulary of American life at the end of the nineteenth
century found in the novel Titan by Theodore Dreiser, its
expression in the original text and the ways it was translated
into the Russian language. Several examples of different
ways of translating the words which have no direct equivalents
in other languages were given in this research. The aim
of this research is to single out culture-specific vocabulary in
the original text and to determine both the most wide-spread
and the least-spread ways of its translation. In the course of
the work all the translations were subdivided into different
groups. The paper offers a linguistic-cultural description of the
words with no direct equivalents in other languages. It allows
to evaluate the adequacy of the given translations.