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The Keywords of Ken Kesey's Novels "Sometimes a Great Notion" and "Sailor Song", and Their Transformation in the Russian Translation

Student: Usenko Anastasiya

Supervisor: Ekaterina Barinova

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod)

Educational Programme: Fundamental and Applied Linguistics (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2016

The current work is devoted to the study of a literary text with use of method of automatic analysis, identifying keywords and analyzing their transformations when translated into Russian. Based on the the novels "Sometimes a Great Notion» and "Sailor Song» by Ken Kesey. Throught the study key words were revealed and divided into thematic groups. In "Sometimes a Great Notion" they were: home and family, system and rebel, nature, life and death, time and truth, nationalism and discrimination. In the "sailor's Song": nature, animals, own, other's, religion, rebel, alcohol and drugs. Some transformations from English into Russian were found. In the novel "Sometimes a Great Notion»: Stamper, outfits, Indian, injun, nigger, time, never give an inch, notion. And in the "Sailor Song" transformations were of such thematic groups as rebel, religion, animals, alcohol. Transformations were often used in names having semantics; in urban words; lexis that has no equivalent in Russian; phraseologisms, ambiguous words; in the title, metaphorical statements, author's abbreviations, neologisms.

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