Translating across cultures
UNSPECIFIED (1998) Translating across cultures. In: Annual Meeting of the British-Association-for-Applied-Linguistics, UNIV BIRMINGHAM, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, SEP, 1997. Published in: LANGUAGE AT WORK, 13 pp. 72-85.Full text not available from this repository.
This paper discusses the rise of Translation Studies as st discipline, and the relationship between language and culture in that discipline. It is argued that translation has played a key role in moments of social transformation. The concept of the translator as mediator between cultures is set against that of the translator as agent of cultural oppression, and essential inequalities in the translation process are discussed. Examples from jokes, knitting patterns and travel literature are presented as illustrations of the interrelatedness of language and culture.
|Item Type:||Conference Item (UNSPECIFIED)|
|Subjects:||P Language and Literature|
|Series Name:||BRITISH STUDIES IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS|
|Journal or Publication Title:||LANGUAGE AT WORK|
|Publisher:||MULTILINGUAL MATTERS LTD|
|Number of Pages:||14|
|Page Range:||pp. 72-85|
|Title of Event:||Annual Meeting of the British-Association-for-Applied-Linguistics|
|Location of Event:||UNIV BIRMINGHAM, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND|
|Date(s) of Event:||SEP, 1997|
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