A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE USE OF EUPHEMISATIONIN THE NOVEL BY GARY D. SCHMIDT “THE WEDNESDAY WARS”AND ITS TRANSLATION INTO RUSSIAN

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to trace the similarities and differences in the use of euphemisms and euphemistic statements in Russian and American linguistic culture. The material used is dialogues from a novel by Gary Schmidt ‘The Wednesday Wars', containing euphemized elements, and their translations into Russian (the translation of O. Varshaver of 2012 is quoted in the paper). As a research method, the scheme proposed by L. Makarov was taken, as well as elements of multimodal discourse analysis. During the analysis, the selected speech fragment is divided into moves and transactions, then the cultural context of the communicative situation is considered as well as the number of participants and the history of their interaction, after that the form, tone and discourse style of the analyzed segment are described. The results of the research can be applied in teaching of foreign languages and cultures, the practice of translation, as well as in further theoretical studies on discourse analysis and pedagogical discourse analysis.