The paper aims to provide analysis of language lacunae and some methods of their elimination in communication and translation. The article observes the main ideas of modern scholars on the problem of language and cultural lacunarity. The article describes the concept and features of lacunae as specific markers of national cultural consciousness determining the overall process of cognition and perception of reality, its categorization and nomination. Further on the author provides modern typologies of lacunae. Thus, as the author states, the analysis of the existing language gaps allows not only to reveal the problematic zones emerging in communication and translation, but also to reconstruct culturally conditioned worldview at its basic level in the structure of a linguistic personality. Hence, the intersection of cultural studies and translation studies is obvious. The article provides the analysis of the existing methods of lacunae elimination. The article reveals that, depending on the lacunae type, the nature of the text, the reader, the goals set by the author or an interpreter, different elimination methods can be used, namely: filling or compensation.
In conclusion the author states that the elaborated means of lacunae elimination provide for greater or lesser reduction of lacunar tension. However, penetration into the national specific of lacunar spheres of a linguoculture when applying either filling or compensation methods should be sufficiently deep due to extralinguistic and multidirectional nature of the phenomenon of lacunarity, which goes beyond mere linguistic or notional nonequivalence.