ZEUGMA IN THE LANGUAGE OF ENGLISH FICTION AND ITS TRANSLATION INTO RUSSIAN (BASED ON J. GRISHAM'S NOVEL "THE CONFESSION")
The article deals with the study of the functioning of zeugma in the language of "legal thriller" fiction. The study was conducted on the material of the novel "The Confession" by the modern American writer John Grisham. The author keeps to the understanding of zeugma as a semantic syllepsis, which is characterized by the presence of a nuclear word that implements various semantic connections with the elements of the construction. The study presents the analysis of the main functions of zeugmatic constructions in the literature of this genre, determines the main structural types of zeugma, and studies the translation techniques of transferring English-language zeugmatic constructions into Russian. The author determines that, performing its main function - giving expressiveness to a literary text, zeugma in the thriller genre brings not a comic, but a dramatic and tragic effect, which is primarily due to the peculiarities of this literary style. Other functions of the zeugma are also explained - informative, descriptive and text-forming. The morphological analysis of the nuclear word made it possible to classify the main types of zeugmatic constructions, highlighting the most frequent type "nuclear word - verb". A comparative analysis of the original English zeugmatic constructions and Russian versions of their translation makes it possible to determine the main difficulties in translating zeugma into Russian. It is stated that the preservation of zeugma in the target language is not possible in all cases. The author concludes that the use of such translation techniques as compensation and modulation leads to an expansion of predication and, as a result, to the loss of zeugma in translation.