CULTURE-SPECIFIC LEXIS AS A REFLECTION OF NATIONAL CULTURAL IDENTITY

The issue of the culture-specific lexis's value is an important element in crosscultural and interlingual contacts. In this article, the issues of the culture-specific lexis's translation ways are considered, the special attention is paid to the floating category of such realia. The studying of realia transfer ways at the fiction translation is defined by the increasing interest in languages researches at various levels, by the tendency to studying of interrelation between language and culture as the specifics of thinking of each people are displayed in the culture-specific lexis. The relevance of this paper is caused by insufficient investigation of the culture-specific lexis' role when literary translation that often leads to decrease in value of the fiction perception.