RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and SemanticsRUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics2313-22992411-1236Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)7366Research ArticleOn Features of Russian Particles Representation in the English Literary Text (the case-study of Vladimir Nabokov’s “The Luzhin Defense” novel)MarkovaE AThe Foreign languages Department Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciencesabellen@yandex.ruPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia15022013212913608092016Copyright © 2013, Markova E.A.2013The article is devoted to the research of the rendition characteristics for the Russian particles вот ( vot ) and же ( zhe ) in English by the author-translator (Vladimir Nabokov). The study of particles in the Russian text and their representation in the English version confirms the researchers’ findings on particles accentuating function in the text and thus leads to the conclusion on the possibility for some other functions of the particles to be detected in the languages of different structures.particlemeaningRussianEnglishrepresentationsubstitutionzero translationчастицазначениерусскийанглийскийрепрезентациязамещениенулевой перевод