Translating Lexical Nonsense into Russian and Ukrainian (based on Jabberwocky by L. Carroll)
The paper focuses on particularities of translating lexical nonsense inserted into poetical works. We claim that such ontological characteristics of nonsense as its structural nonconventionality, referential-significational indeterminateness and semantic ambiguity have a great impact on both its interpreting and creating translation equivalents. As a result of the research, it has been revealed that translator’s competence as well as his/her personal characteristics are of primary importance while interpreting lexical nonsense and creating its equivalents. The conclusion is made that translators are to create functional equivalents to nonsense lexemes taking into account that the means of implementing the same functions in the source language and in the target languages can be different.