Короткий опис(реферат):
The article considers the specifics of colloquialisms functioning in English cinematic discourse that defines
the choice of translation strategies for representing them in Ukrainian films in order to preserve the conceptual
equivalence in cross-cultural cinematic discourse. The research methodology, which incorporates general
scientific methods of analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction as well as linguistic methods of contextual,
lexical, stylistic and pragmatic analyses, resulted in determining the theoretical background of the study, selecting
illustrative research material and suggesting the country-specific meaning of colloquialisms used in English
cinematic discourse. Colloquialisms, understood as informal words or expressions that are more suitable for use
in speech than in writing, contain a lot of dialectal words, slang, jargon and obscene words, which are clearly
distinct from each other. Colloquialisms, formed by compounding (44%), shortening (40%), rhyming (10%)
and affixation (6%), perform two main functions: emotion-expressive and image-сreating. The methods of
translation analysis helped define the specifics of reproduction of colloquialisms in cross-cultural English-
Ukrainian cinematic discourse. Depending upon semantic and communicative appropriateness of colloquialisms
in cross-cultural cinematic discourse, there have been distinguished three levels of their conceptual equivalence
graded as the upper degree (48%), the medium degree (48%) and the initial degree (14%).
