INTRODUCTION 3
Chapter I: TRANSLATION AS A TOOL OF CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION 5
1.1 Translation as Cross-Cultural Communication Agent 5
1.2 The notion of culture in literary translation 9
Chapter II: THE PROBLEM OF TRANSLATION ENGLISH LITERARY TEXTS 12
2.1 The role of national coloring in the translation 12
2.2 Grammatical transformations 15
2.2.1 Transposition 16
2.2.2 Replacements 17
2.2.3 Meaning extension or sense development 18
2.2.4 Sentence integration and fragmentation 20
2.3 Lexical transformations 21
2.3.1 Concretization 22
2.3.2 Generalization 23
2.3.3 Addition 23
2.3.4 Omission 24
2.3.5 Compensation 26
CONCLUSION 28
BIBLIOGRAPHY 30