Senkevych Anastasiya

Mass media is our only connection to the big world. English is the language of international news agencies. Thus, the translation of modern media texts is and will be extremely widespread. This work is an attempt to find ways to adapt culturally marked and emotionally colored PU to Ukrainian readers.

The subject of our investigation is structural, semantic and etymological features of PU in various classifications and the peculiarities of their translation into Ukrainian. The purpose of our investigation is to elucidate the role of English-language PU in the texts of modern media discourse and find out the peculiarities of their translation.

to provide general overview of English media discourse; to identify the term “phraseological unit”; to consider different classifications of PU; to determine the functions of PU in the texts of media discourse; to define the main ways of translating PU;

Theoretical part of this diploma paper is based on the writings of such linguists as O. Kunin, A. Smirnitsky, V. Vinogradov, N. Amosova, L. Smitt, I.Korunets etc.

coherent and logical syntactical structure careful paragraphing wide use of words with the emotive coloring stylistic devices are not fresh brevity of expression Functions: informative, expressive, persuasive etc.

A phraseological unit is a sustainable indivisible phrase or sentence that acts like a separate lexical unit. Words that make up PU, in most cases, partially or completely lose their own lexical meaning.

Based on the semantic structure proposed by professor O. Kunin. Verbal – ex. make smb. nervous Substantival – ex. the heavy price Adjectival – ex. alive and kicking Adverbial – ex. between two fires Interjectional – ex. Come on!

Based on the degree of semantic proximity between components by V. Vinogradov: Phraseological combinations: ex. pay attention Phraseological unities: ex. throw dust in the eyes Phraseological fusions: ex. make ends meet

Based on origin proposed by professor O. Kunin: Borrowed 26% within 1 lang. from other L-s Native 74%

-full equivalent -25% ex: playing with fire - грається з вогнем -partial equivalent – 29% ex: talk is cheap - пусті балачки -analogue translation – 16% ex: carrot and stick approach - метод батога та пряника -descriptive translation – 21% ex: the elephant in the room of public spending - очевидну проблему у сфері суспільних витрат. -calque – 8% -combined translation – 1%

Stevenson famously replied: "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over". На це Стівенсон відповів своєю знаменитою фразою: «Я готовий чекати на твою відповідь поки пекло не замерзне».

The translator faces 2 main difficulties when dealing with idioms: to recognize and interpret an idiom correctly find the most suitable rendering of an idiom into the target language We have defined the functions of English-language PU in the texts of modern media discourse and the peculiarities of their translation into Ukrainian.