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GENDER LEXICAL ASPECTS AS THEY ARE SEEN IN AN ENGLISH TEXT AND IN ITS RUSSIAN VERSION // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2014. Issue 10 (151). P. 94-101

This paper concerns the lexical problem how to convey the category of gender while translating the authentic English texts into Russian. When contrasted to each other the English and the Russian analogous nouns being of different genders illustrate dramatically different outer world as it is seen through the grammatical category of gender. The Russian professional translators do their best to convey the English gender peculiarities using both grammar and lexical-semantic devices sometimes seeming to be of no effect. While studying gender close attention is drawn to conveying masculine and feminine gender and animate/inanimate categories.

Keywords: gender, the category of gender, masculine, feminine, noun, pronoun, a text and its discourse, word formation