Literary Translation and its Limitations in the Wider Spectrum of Cross Cultural Communication

In the article the phenomenon of translation is regarded as mental interpretation activity not only in linguistics, but also in literary criticism. The literary work and its translation are most vivid guides to mental and cultural life of people, an example of intercultural communication. An adequate perception of non-native culture depends on communicators’ general fund of knowledge. The essential part of such fund of knowledge is native language, and translation, being a mediator, is a means of cross-language and cross-cultural communication. Mastering another language through literature, a person is mastering new world and its culture. The process of literary texts’ translation requires language creativity of the translator, who becomes so-called “co-author” of the work. Translation activity is a result of the interpreter’s creativity and a sort of language activity: language units are being selected according to language units of the original text. This kind of approach actualizes linguistic researching of real translation facts: balance between language and speech units of the translated work (i.e. translationinterpretation, author’s made-up words, or revised language peculiarities of the characters). The process of literary translation by itself should be considered within the dimension of a dialogue between cultures. Such a dialogue takes place in the frame of different national stereotypes of thinking and communicational behavior, which influences mutual understanding between the communicators with the help of literary work being a mediator. So, modern linguistics actualizes the research of language activities during the process of literary work’s creating. This problem has to be studied furthermore, it can be considered as one of the central ones to be under consideration while dealing with cultural dimension of the translation process, including the process of solving the problems of cross-cultural communication.

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Translating The Waste Land: Literal accuracy, poetic fidelity and cross-cultural communication

Literator ◽

10.4102/lit.v22i2.360 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 21-38

Author(s):

A. Wessels

Keyword(s):

Cultural Identity ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Cultural Dimensions ◽

Literary Translation ◽

Cultural Communication ◽

Translation Theory ◽

The Waste Land ◽

Cross Cultural Communication ◽

Waste Land ◽

The Impact

The author of this article published an Afrikaans translation of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land in 1992. This article is a personal contemplation and evaluation of the process of literary translation as experienced in the particular case, referring to aspects of translation theory where relevant. It discusses the unremitting balancing act that literary translation requires, where the translator has to pose the need for as close a literal translation as possible against the need to render, again as faithfully as possible, the comprehensive poetic effect of the work, as regards, for example, stylistic features, emotive force and symbolic significance. Through all of this runs the thread of (a sometimes unconscious) transculturation of the work, partly the result of the desire on the part of the translator to communicate the impact of the poem as successfully as possible to a specific audience with a specific cultural identity and cultural presuppositions. Sometimes the inescapable interpretative nature of literary translation could be attributable to the cultural identity of the translator himself and sometimes it could be the result of the innate cultural dimensions or temper of the recipient language. The problems encountered, solutions arrived at and transcultural evolution effected are illustrated from the (original and translated) texts.

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Translation as a Communication Strategy in Representing National Culture

Social Inclusion ◽

10.17645/si.v9i1.3455 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 5-13 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Aizhan Akkaliyeva ◽

Baktigul Abdykhanova ◽

Lyazat Meirambekova ◽

Zhanar Jambaeyva ◽

Galiya Tussupbekova

Keyword(s):

Cultural Values ◽

Intercultural Communication ◽

National Culture ◽

Social Inclusion ◽

International Communication ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Communication Strategy ◽

Literary Translation ◽

Cultural Communication ◽

Cross Cultural Communication

The linguistic trinity policy, which has been implemented in Kazakhstan since its independence in the 1990s, is aimed at integrating translation into global processes. Kazakh-Russian bilingualism, caused by the historical and geopolitical proximity of the two countries, is now turning into trilingualism, joining up with English as the dominant language for international communication. Literary translation as a part of cross-cultural communication is also involved in social inclusion processes, contributing to the exchange of cultural values and a better understanding of modern multilingual Kazakhstani society. This article focuses on the issue of presenting Kazakh literature in translation through a mediating language and the research involves an analysis of culture-related lexemes as representations of a nomadic lifestyle in the mirror of intercultural communication. The authors highlight cultural and linguistic aspects of Kazakh transmitted from the mediatory Russian into the target English. Based on a review of previous findings on indirect literary translation, this article discusses whether a mediating language affects the inclusion of Kazakh culture in the globalization process.

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A Relevance Theory Perspective on Translating the Implicit Information in Literary Texts

Journal of Translation ◽

10.54395/jot-xdhen ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 43-60

Author(s):

Zhonggang Sang

Keyword(s):

Relevance Theory ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Literary Translation ◽

Literary Texts ◽

Cultural Communication ◽

Theory Approach ◽

Cross Cultural Communication ◽

Implicit Information ◽

Language Boundaries ◽

Cognitive Study

As one type of cross-cultural communication, the literary translation is more difficult for the translator as he has to deal with a large chunk of implicit information. The implicit information has as its characteristics, such as graded communicability, context-dependence, the correlation among the implicit information, text and context, etc. These characteristics restrict the communicability of the literary texts in another context, so the translator of the literary texts often finds more difficulties in translating. Encouraged by Gutt’s theory and his recent findings, this article adopts a relevance-theory approach and attempts to present a cognitive study of the implicit information in literary texts. It experiments with building an explanatory framework for translating the implicit information in literary texts. The framework is based on a new notion: translation is clues-based interpretive use of language across language boundaries.

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THE TEACHING OF READING AND TRANSLATION AS TEACHING THE MEDIATE CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Universities for Tourism and Service Association Bulletin ◽

10.22412/1999-5644-11-4-10 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 75-81

Author(s):

Наталия Филимонова ◽

Nataliya Filimonova ◽

Елена Панова ◽

Elena Panova

Keyword(s):

Fairy Tales ◽

Text Comprehension ◽

Fairy Tale ◽

World View ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Russian Language ◽

Literary Translation ◽

Lewis Carroll ◽

Cultural Communication ◽

Cross Cultural Communication

The article is devoted to questions of formation of cross-cultural communication on the classes with foreign students studying Russian language.. The authors propose to include reading of literary texts and their translation in the system of foreigners’ training with the aim of developing students’ practical skills of cross-cultural communication. Authors pay attention to the fact that the literary text helps to understand another culture and to overcome cultural distance. To facilitate the cultural perception of the text, the authors propose a system of reading of the adapted English literary fairy tale by Lewis Carroll " Alice's Adventures in Wonderland " in a literary translation of Boris Zakhoder. The proposed approach differs from the traditional one because, foreign readers have the opportunity to compare the world view of the English fairy tales author and the Russian translator, and also to correlate his translation from a classic translation. The article focuses on the fact that in connection with the identity of the tales author, the author of literary translation and for the foreign reader to different cultures and different national consciousnesses, the teacher together with the students-foreigners, must overcome cultural and language barriers for successful cross-cultural communication. The authors consider that the task of grammatical, lexical and communicative approach aim at achieving the text comprehension. Additional tasks of translation, that extend the capabilities of traditional work, also help. Tasks presented in the article help the student to understand the main thing: the ignorance of some of the cultural backgrounds of native speakers of a particular country does not mean that we should avoid translation work, because this work helps to learn a different language culture.

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