Linguistic Means of Expressing the Concept of "Supernatural" in O. Wilde’s Novel "The Canterville Ghost" and Its Translations into Russian Language
The article is devoted to the analysis of linguistic means of expressing the concept of “supernatural’’ in the novel by 0. Wilde “The Canter-ville Ghost’’ (1887). The study provides a comparative analysis of the authentic text of the novel with its two Russian-language versions of Yu.I. Kagarlitsky (1960) and I.A. Razumovskaya and S.P. Shotgun (1961). The article also presents the basic principles of translating the lexical units, word combinations and constructions with a component “supernatural” from English into Russian. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that Russian versions of this novel have not previously been considered from the point of view of identifying in them the translation strategies of inter-lingual transfer of units with the semantic component “supernatural”. The purpose of the article is to identify and analyze the strategies used by the translators for the purpose of interlanguage transfer of units with “otherworldly” semantics.