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Specifics of rendering the negative politeness strategies in the translations of English-language business letters in Ukrainian

translation of such markers into Ukrainian; (3) to systematize the translation transformations applied by rendering the strategies of negative politeness in Ukrainian-language translations; 4) to determine the level of success of the applied transformations for optimizaton of business intercultural interaction while scrutinizing thee intensifiers and de-intensifiers of negative politeness. The study led to the following main results. Hedges and impersonalization have been identified as the key markers of negative politeness – the politeness of reducing pressure on the recipient of business correspondence. The article has identified groups of transformations that, on the one hand, function as intensifiers and, on the other hand, as de-intensifiers of negative politeness strategies. De-intensifiers of negative politeness include the syntactic transformations of omission of hedges in the Ukrainian translations such as would, rather, can / could and mitigators please, less than, etc., available in the English-language source text. The syntactic-grammatical transformation of a two-member sentence into a two-member sentence – definite-personal and impersonal sentences – has been identified as intensifiers of negative politeness strategies. Both types of transformations are substantiated in the paper as transformations with a pragmatic component, as their application contributes to a certain variation in the level of intensity of pragmatic negative politeness strategies. Among the transformations of the formal plan that do not affect the weakening or strengthening of negative politeness strategies, the following are distinguished: grammatical transformation of parts of speech recategorization, lexical-semantic transformation of generalization, transformation of addition, transposition and modulation. The prospect of the study is the analysis of the specifics of rendering the strategies of positive politeness in Ukrainian translations of the English-language business letters.