The specificity of the translation of culturally marked vocabulary in modern American media discourse into Ukrainian (based on the material of The New York Times online edition)

Abstract

The aim of the research is to study the peculiarities of the translation of English culturally marked vocabulary into Ukrainian in the mass media discourse. The aim predetermines the following tasks: - to overview the approaches to defining culturally marked vocabulary units; - to analyze the problem of translation of culturally marked vocabulary from English into Ukrainian; - to characterize the mass media discourse; - to characterize the imagery of culturally marked units as a means of creating semantic connections in the English and Ukrainian languages; - to determine the operational tools of translation of English culturally marked vocabulary in the mass media discourse; - to analyze the translation transformations applied to rendering of the culturally marked vocabulary of the mass media discourse.