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Article name Foreign Elements in Prose and Poetry
Authors Kolomeytseva E.B. Senior Teacher, tillyriddle@yandex.ru
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Section World Philology
UDK 81’38, 81’42
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Annotation The article deals with the phonetic, graphic, grammatical, lexical and semantic peculiarities of foreign elements functioning. Any inclusion in fiction acquires a number of additional peculiarities derived from the character of the text and the degree of their assimilation. They are illustrated with the examples and classified. In the article “embedded foreign elements” are a number of units which show structural heterogeneity in the text. They are surrounded with the units of foreign language. Based on 5 prosaic and 50 poetic texts of different bilingual authors, who write in English, the examples show that the functioning of foreign elements from various languages in prose and poetry differs according to the range of peculiarities. There are selected contemporary works by authors who mainly describe other cultures. In prose foreign elements are assimilated on different levels more than in poetry. Moreover, foreign elements in prose are not limited in their length. Foreign elements in poetry are retranslated “as they are”, then assimilated. Foreign elements are analyzed in order to find lexical and semantic oppositions. One more peculiarity of foreign elements in prose is the opportunity of lacuna foreign elements’ classification according to their subject areas. In such way embedded foreign elements in prose and poetry differ in their functioning.
Key words foreign elements, text, assimilation, phonetic and graphic level, grammatical level, lexical and semantic level.
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