ABUSIVE LANGUAGE AND PROBLEMS OF ITS TRANSLATION IN AMERICAN AND BRITISH TV SERIES

Abstract

All fi lms inevitably use abusive language as a representation of modern society.
The research in question defi nes some functions of abusive language use (emotional state,
social status, pathological swearing etc.) and its types (naming parts of human body, the
coitus process, etc.). The problems of swear words translation lie in the fact that despite the
variety of the Russian abusive vocabulary in comparison with the English one, the translation
of such English words into Russian is rather complicated (as TV series are usually watched
by children). The article presents some examples of the most commonly used English swear
words from two TV series of different genres. The author provides them with the variants of
their possible translation.