The Lexical Diversity Ratio of a Literary Text and Its Translation

The article deals with the problem of comparing the lexical diversity ratio of the original and the translation of a literary text. The relevance of the work is due to the growing interest of researchers in the possibilities of applied methods of computational linguistics to the study of the quantitative component of text corpora and the study of certain linguistic phenomena of originals and their translations. The lexical diversity ratio of the original literary text and its translation can give an idea of the effectiveness of translation in terms of reflecting the complexity and richness of the original language. The research material was the short stories by the American writer W. G. Simms and the translations made by M. L. Pavlycheva. It turned out that the lexical diversity ratio is influenced by both the volume of the studied text corpora and the grammatical structures of the language