CONCERNING THE TRANSLATION OF ENGLISH CULTURE-SPECIFIC TERMS

Abstract

The paper is concerned with the scope and content of English culture-specific terms, and highlights the most frequent techniques used in translating such terms from English into Ukrainian. The author identifies both common and distinguishing features between “culture-specific terms”, on the one hand, and the concepts “term” and “culturally bound words”, on the other. Based on his analysis, the author provides his own definition of the concept “culture-specific term”.