Psycholinguistic Reception of Negation in the Process of English-Ukrainian Translation

The abstract presents the results of the study of antonymic translation as a kind of semantic development when substitution of an affirmative in sense and structure source language unit for a semantically corresponding negative in structure sense unit of the target language and vice versa is made. Antonymic translation is employed for the sake of achieving faithfulness in conveying content or the necessary expressiveness of sense units. The author investigates the mobility and semantic capacity of translator’s choice because of equivalent-lacking grammatical categories.