THE LEXEME «SOUL» AND ITS MEANING ON THE MATERIAL OF THE NOVEL «VIRGIN SOIL» BY IVAN TURGENEV IN TRANSLATION OF ROSHELLE S. TOWNSEND

Abstract

The article for the first time discusses the features of the translation of the lexeme «soul». Ivan Turgenev's novel «Virgin Soil» and its English translation by Roshelle S. Townsend (1929) were used as the basis of the study. Linguocultural concept «soul» is the key concept in Russian culture. It is present in the Russian religious, everyday and artistic world-image. This is the most important part of the Russian mentality, its value dominant. Many moral values of the Russian people are concentrated in this concept. It is also the key to understanding the Russian national character and the mysterious Russian soul that the reader sees in Turgenev's literary text. The linguistic representation of the concept «soul» in the original Russian and translated English contexts expands our understanding of Russian culture, helps to understand the ideological meaning of the novel by Turgenev.