APPLICATION OF CORPUS LINGUISTICS SOFTWARE IN TRANSLATION OF OFFICIAL DOCUMENTATION

Abstract

In the article the use of the software in general and the corpus editors WordSmith Tools and Sketch Engine are analyzed as tools for improving and deepening the study of lexical and grammatical phenomena in linguistic research. Possible ways and areas of application of corpus managers within the framework of the development of corpus linguistics and the application of its tools in practice are considered. Concepts such as corpus linguistics, its functions, perspectives and directions of development were analyzed and outlined in the work. The concept of translation transformations was described; the frequency of use of translation transformations was analyzed based on the analysis of the corpus of official business texts using WordSmith Tools and Sketch Engine software. Based on the research, the following conclusions were made that the use of lexical-grammatical translation transformations in the process of translating official-style texts is due to the different linguistic nature of the English and Ukrainian languages and is a necessary condition for solving the problem of translation adequacy. Corpus managers, on examples of WordSmith Tools and Sketch Engine, enable the translator to create his own corpus of texts of a certain genre. So if there are doubts about the use of certain translation transformations, as a result of which a unit from the original language is modified in the language of translation, it is possible to check the feasibility of using this lexeme, its frequency of use in a certain discourse and the use of a certain grammatical form.