PECULIARITIES OF TRANSLATING UKRAINIAN CULTURE-MARKED LINGUISTIC UNITS INTO ENGLISH (ON THE MATERIAL OF ACADEMIC TEXTS)

The article is devoted to the problem of studying culture-marked linguistic units (representing national peculiarities) within the framework of the socially conditioned fact that the mastery in academic English is an integral component in the implementation of the educational process, scientific and intercultural communication for students and scholars. The specifics of translating Ukrainian culture-marked linguistic units into English has been identified; the essence of the concept “academic discourse” has been revealed; the classification features of academic texts and linguistic features of culture-marked lexical units have been analysed; the tactical-strategic construct of reproducing the units under study into English has been specified. Academic discourse is associated with a situation-conditioned discourse, the extralinguistic foundation of which is the theoretical and practical basis for educational relations between participants of academic activities, successful cooperation within the university and beyond it in accordance with the university statutory documents. Genre forms of academic discourse actualisation by classification features (scientific article, academic review, monograph, dissertation, summary, thesis, extended abstract of dissertation, research project, etc.) have been analysed. The key strategy when dealing with the translation of Ukrainian culture-marked linguistic units into English (the strategy of communicativeequivalent translation) and the most commonly used translation tactics (the tactics of cognitive information reproduction, the tactics of linguistic and cultural text adaptation, the tactics of correct information representation) have been determined.