Cultural Translation: Introduction to Translation, Interpretation, and Mediation

Author: Catan
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: "Translating Across Cultures" and "Cultural Proficiency" are hot topics in current translation studies. This book attempts to bring the discussion about culture into a more rigorous and coherent logical framework, and provides a model for teaching culture to translators, interpreters, and other cultural mediators. As an introductory guide to interpreting culture, this book aims to enhance the cultural awareness of cultural mediators in constructing, understanding, and translating cultural realities. The author believes that the cultural context is a framework within which we perceive and understand external cultural images or realities. The author's research methodology is interdisciplinary, drawing on anthropology, meta-pattern theory, sociolinguistics, speech act theory, relevance theory, functional grammar theory, and more. The book illustrates potential issues and corresponding strategies in cultural translation through numerous well-chosen examples and insightful analyses of authoritative translations, guiding translators and interpreters to play a more proactive role in cross-cultural communication. It is suitable for those who live or work in different cultures and wish to learn more about the successes and failures of cross-cultural communication related to their own experiences.