RENDERING IMAGERY IN THE SEMANTC STRUCTURE OF STABLE TERMINOLOGICAL WORD COMBINATIONS

Abstract

The article deals with the peculiarities of rendering the meaning of stable terminological word combinations in the translation process with the help of word combinations having no imaginative rethinking in the semantic structure. The research is made on the example of legal terminology in English and Russian. As legal terms are an integral part of the literary language the author resorts to the principles of classification used in Phraseology. The examples given in the paper reveal the difference between the English and Russian word combinations in the lexical and grammatical structure. The conclusion is made that the shifts of meaning in the semantic structure of legal terms have an anthropocentric orientation. The connection between the nature of the semantic shifts in the legal terminology and national cultures is shown. The results of the investigation give an opportunity to examine the features of the corresponding fragment of the linguistic picture of the world. The material of the research can be used at the classes of Comparative Typology of the English and Russian languages, Comparative Phraseology, Linguistic Cultural Studies, Translation Technique and Legal English lessons for Russian speakers.