INTRODUCTION 4
CHAPTER 1. TRANSLATION AND ITS STYLES 7
1.1. TRANSLATION AS A SPECIFIC KIND OF HUMAN ACTIVITY 7
1.2. LEXICAL TRANSFORMATIONS 9
1.3. LITERAL AND NON-LITERAL STYLES OF TRANSLATION 11
CHAPTER 2. FORMAL AND INFORMAL TRANSLATION FROM ENGLISH TO RUSSIAN 16
2.1. TRANSLATION OF POLITICAL LITERATURE AND NEWSPAPER STYLE 16
2.2. TRANSLATION OF INFORMAL LEXICON 24
CONCLUSION 30
BIBLIOGRAPHY 33