LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL FEATURES OF

ENGLISH SCIENTIFIC TEXT AND PROBLEMS

OF ITS TRANSLATION

group ПР-09-4 мShevchenko Lilia

Topicality of the problem is predetermined by the growth of

scientific language in the formation of professional competence

and positive verbal behavior of modern professionals, their

capacity to interpret scientific concepts and theories.

The object of the diploma paper is the research of lexical

and grammatical features of English scientific text and

problems of its translation.

The subject of the diploma paper is the lexical items,

grammatical forms and constructions, sentences of English

scientific texts and translation transformations.

The purpose of the work is to elucidate questions of the English scientific text functioning, its lexical and grammatical features and find out problems which arise in the process of its translation. To achieve the given purpose we have attempted to:

1) investigate the main characteristics of the scientific texts; 2) consider different classifications of English scientific text; 3) conduct the content analysis of lexical and grammatical features of English scientific texts by the defined criteria; 4) determine the morpho-syntactic and semantic features of English scientific terminology; 5) elucidate the means of term formation in the modern English scientific language; 6) detect the specifics of use of grammatical means in English scientific texts; 7) make the translation analysis of English scientific texts based on lexical-grammatical transformations.

Classification of English scientific texts:

1. scientific texts of academic nature (monograph, articles, thesis, reports, dissertations);

2. scientific texts of educational character (textbooks, dictionaries, reference books, hand-books, vocabularies, etc.);

3. scientific texts of informative and evaluative nature (instruction, application, review, summary, abstract, etc.).

Using content analysis we have analyzed lexical features of

English scientific texts by the following criteria:

- belonging to a particular industry

- types of terminological system

- structural classification of terminological units

- types of term derivation

We have analyzed grammatical features of English

scientific texts by the following criteria:

- syntactic structure of sentences

- Voice

Lexical transformations:

- concretization,

- generalization,

- loss-of-meaning compensation,

- sense development,

- metonymic,

- antonymic translation.

Grammatical transformations:

- addition,

- omission,

- transposition,

- replacement.

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