Translation as cultural transposition

Savić, Vera; Čutura, Ilijana

doi:10.29302/jolie.2011.4.10

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“…This anisomorphism is most evident in CSWs as well as larger lexical units such as prefabricated chunks, idioms and proverbs. CSWs themselves are known in the literature by several names: culture-bound words (Lefevere, 1992); culture-specific terms (Williams, 1990;Matter-Siebel 1995); cultural words (Savić and Čutura, 2011); culture-bound expressions (Aciobanitei), cultural terms or words (Newmark, 1981 and, culture-bound terms (HE Xue-bing, 2006), culture-specific items (Kaledaite and Asijavičiūte, 2005;Terestyényi, 2011) and realia (Schäffner & Wiesemann, 2001;Vlahov andFlorin (1980 cited in Tellinger 2003)). CSWs can be defined as "… words and combinations of words denoting objects and concepts characteristic of the way of life, the culture, the social and historical development of one nation and alien to another" (Florin, 1993, p. 123).…”

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Equivalence Procedures for Culture-Specific Words and Their Application in the Arabic-English Dictionary

Abu-Ssaydeh¹

2022

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Despite the extensive research carried out on the definition, classification and translation procedures of culture-specific words (CSWs) in text translation, little attention has been given to these procedures in the creation of equivalence in the bilingual dictionary. This paper examines the nature and adequacy of the major CSWs translation procedures as well as their application in two Arabic-English dictionaries: Wehr’s Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic and Munir Baalbaki’s Al-Mawrid: A Modern Arabic-English Dictionary. The analysis will show that, statistically, the most commonly used procedure is borrowing, followed by explanation, explanatory equivalence and a combination of these three procedures. Other procedures, namely cultural equivalence, functional equivalence and synonymy, are less frequently used and produce, for the most part, inadequate and/ or inaccurate equivalents as evidenced by examples in sections B., C. and E. It will further demonstrate that the two dictionaries show inconsistencies, errors of judgment and occasional failure to employ procedures that best capture the exact meaning of the word in the target language. It will be concluded that if the dictionary intends to provide accurate and unambiguous interlingual equivalents, the compiler will have to resort to procedures capable of accomplishing this task.

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Equivalence Procedures for Culture-Specific Words and Their Application in the Arabic-English Dictionary

Abu-Ssaydeh¹

2022

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Knowledge of Word Connotations in the Translation of Culture-specific Lexis: Findings from a Pilot Study

Lee¹

2014

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Cultural Change and Cultural Mediation in the Translation of Culture-Specific Lexis

Lee

2018

Redefining Translation and Interpretation in Cultural Evolution

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This chapter looks at the cultural mediator role of translation trainees dealing with culture-specific lexis. Translators need to be able to make connections between and across the cultures they are dealing with, and to negotiate and overcome any differences, conveying the message of the source text to the target readers with optimum effect. Five translation classes which placed emphasis on optimal relevance in translation were provided to 10 undergraduate students learning translation in Seoul, South Korea. The chapter highlights the significant role translation of culture-specific lexis can play in forming and developing learners' identities as mediators between source and target text cultures, no doubt an important role in light of cultural change in an era of globalization which calls for culture or cultures to be viewed from a multifaceted and diverse perspective.

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Translation as cultural transposition

Cited by 3 publications

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Equivalence Procedures for Culture-Specific Words and Their Application in the Arabic-English Dictionary

Equivalence Procedures for Culture-Specific Words and Their Application in the Arabic-English Dictionary

Knowledge of Word Connotations in the Translation of Culture-specific Lexis: Findings from a Pilot Study

Cultural Change and Cultural Mediation in the Translation of Culture-Specific Lexis

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