Lexical Transformations in English-Ukrainian Translation of Aviation Normative Documentation (based on ICAO Documents)

The article outlines the nature of the aviation normative document as a legal and linguistic phenomenon. Differences in English and Ukrainian lexical systems cause application of translation transformations. Lexical transformations of concretization, generalization, addition, omission, modulation, and descriptive translation prove to be the most frequent in English-Ukrainian translation of ICAO normative documents.