Lexical problems of literary translation by the examples of the novel “Theater” by Somerset Maugham

The aim of this term paper is to show lexical problems of translation on the material of translation the novel “Theatre” by Somerset Maugham. For this it is necessary to solve the following tasks:
1. To show in what way translation of the words that have (and don’t have) lexical correspondences in the Russian language is realized.
2. To analyze characteristics and methods of translation of English figurative phraseology.
3. To give a notion of lexical transformation and its kinds.
4. To describe methods of creation of contextual substitutes.