Addressing Translation Issues as Intercultural Communication Barriers in Tourism

2018 ◽  
pp. 292-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ping Yang
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Research Direction ◽  
Communication Barriers ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Language Needs ◽  
Linguistic Transfer ◽  
Tourist Information

This chapter examines Chinese-English translation issues that cause intercultural communication misunderstanding in the tourism language. As international tourists are travelling around China, Chinese-English translation services are useful. It plays an important role in facilitating the tourism business operations and meeting the tourist language needs. However, failure to understand cultural differences can result in intercultural communication failure in tourism discourse. The researcher critically analysed the English-Chinese translation issues using tourist information texts collected from a variety of written sources and examining them at cross-lingua-cultural communication level. Translation of tourist information texts from a source language to a target language is more than a linguistic transfer and involves linguistic restructure and cultural imaging re-creation that make sense in a target language and culture. Implications for addressing translation issues as intercultural communication barriers are discussed. Future research direction is also indicated in the conclusion.

scholarly journals Exploring the efficacy of pre-service teachers as makers of virtual language/culture learning environments

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 14-32
Author(s):  
Sabrina Priego ◽  
Meei-Ling Liaw
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Computer Assisted Language Learning ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
The Social

Previous literature in the area of computer assisted language learning in Second/Foreign Language (L2/FL) education has highlighted the benefits of using virtual environments for learning the target language and culture (e.g. Blyth, 2018; Lloyd, Rogerson, & Stead, 2017; Shih, 2015). In addition, a number of researchers have demonstrated that one of the important attributes of virtual environments for language learning is the affordances of physical and social presence (e.g. Cho, Yim, & Paik, 2015; McKerlich, Riis, Anderson, & Eastman, 2011; Peterson, 2011; Wang, Lawless-Reljic, Davies, & Callaghan, 2011). However, to our knowledge, no previous studies have investigated the affordances of virtual environments from the makers’ point of view. In this present study, 22 Canadian pre-service teachers used a 360 degree camera and Virtual Reality (VR) software to construct VR environments that were used as cultural virtual tours. They then invited 24 Taiwanese students to interact with them in their created immersive environments. Analyses of the pre-service teachers’ final written reflections showed that most of them reported that they experienced a sense of physical and social presence in their self-created VR environments and that they enjoyed participating in the VR project. However, various factors, such as the design of the task, technical difficulties with the VR equipment, and limits of the social VR network were also found to have negatively influenced their satisfaction with the VR experience. Findings from this study might inform other L2/FL teachers who design VR environments and integrate social VR in their classes. Suggestions for future research are also provided.

scholarly journals Translating into Textual Genres

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel García Izquierdo ◽  
Vicent Montalt i Resurrecció
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Genre Theory ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Do So

When we translate, we do so for specific communicative situations and purposes; that is, we write translations that will fulfil the needs and conventions of specific textual genres in the target language and culture. The aim of this article, which draws on data and experience from the GENTT project, is to explore the relationship between translation and genre theory in order to understand better how translators are involved in interlinguistic and intercultural communication.Genre theory is attractive to Translation Studies because it links the micro level of writing and text to the macro level of discourse and context, unites process with product and integrates the cognitive, social and profes¬sional approaches to translation. Thus, the notion of genre brings together critical elements in translation such as the reader ’s profile, expectations and preferences; the communicative situation and purpose; and the socio-cultural context. In order to understand better how translators are involved in interlinguistic and intercultural communication, we suggest a remodelling of translation in which the target genre plays a central role.

Reframing Iran’s discourse of war in the English translation of Iranian war literature

Babel ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-95
Author(s):  
Katayoon Afzali
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
War Literature ◽  
The United States ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
Ideological Manipulation ◽  
The Government

Abstract Translation as interlingual and intercultural communication has always been subject to ideological manipulation. This is due to the fact that some Translation Studies scholars believe that translators are considered as responsible for the reception and survival of literary works among target language readers. The strategies the translators apply throughout the translation process are governed by those who wield power including political and social institutions like the government, the law and publishers. In view of this phenomenon, the current study explores the paratextual strategies applied by Paul Sprachman, an American translator, when he translated Da (2014) from Farsi into English. Using narrative theory, this study analyses how the English translation appears to reiterate notions of Iran and Shia identity as bellicose and anti- liberal by situating Iran’s war literature as dramatic and fictional, rather than as a testimonial to one Iranian woman’s representations of her lived experience. The findings indicate that the textual and paratextual manipulations were in line with the ideology of the receptive environment of the United States with relevance to the discourse of the war in Iran.

Using French Language Facebook Posts to Increase Beginning Students’ Instrumentality and Cultural Interest

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-108
Author(s):  
Shelly Wyatt ◽  
Glenda Gunter
Keyword(s):  
Target Language ◽  
French Language ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Central Florida ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Language Orientation ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
The Impact

This quasi-experimental study examined the impact of interactions with native French language Facebook posts on beginning French language learners’ attitudes towards the target language and culture. Participants in this study were recruited from two sections of FRE 1120, Elementary French Language and Civilization I at the University of Central Florida. Native French language Facebook posts were ‘pushed’ to participants’ personal Facebook News Feeds over the course of four weeks, with posts pushed on weekdays only. Dörnyei and Clément’s (2001) Language Orientation Questionnaire was used to measure participants’ attitudes towards the target language and culture. Data were analysed using a split-plot ANOVA. A total of twenty-six participants completed the study, with fourteen participants in the control group and twelve participants in the treatment group. Both sections of FRE 1120 were conducted in a face-to-face modality and were taught by the same instructor. Results indicated that participants’ attitudes towards the target language and culture were not significantly impacted by interaction with native French language Facebook posts. Opportunities for future research include increasing the size of the sample, increasing the length of the study, and selecting participants who are more advanced in their mastery of the target language.

scholarly journals Talking About Interpretation In n Intercultural Context

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 109-115
Author(s):  
Xiaochi Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Cultural Adaptation ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Original Speech ◽  
Target Languages

An interpretation is an important work for people to communicate with other people from different cultural background. An interpreter not only translates a sentence or an idiom but also provides the equivalent sentence or an idiom in the target language. Meanwhile, the interpreter should go in the cultural adaptation and gives mutual understanding and comprehension in an intercultural context。 Thus, the author takes a case as an example to show that no one can easily and effectively act as an interpreter. The paper analyzes and discusses the relationships between language and culture, intercultural communication and interpreter. And then the author points out that any successful interpreter must be good at both target languages and cultures, he or she needs to interpret the meaning with acceptable cultural elements of the original speech, and so as to be a qualified interpreter for intercultural communication between different people from different cultural backgrounds.

scholarly journals Intercultural Competence Development at Universities

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1Sup1) ◽  
pp. 200-214
Author(s):  
Liudmyla Holubnycha ◽  
Ilona Kostikova ◽  
Natalia Soroka ◽  
Tetiana Shchokina ◽  
Inna Golopych
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Competence Development ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
The Difference

The aim of the paper is to identify and describe some specifics of intercultural competence development at the tertiary level in the framework of language and culture. Different views on intercultural competence development in higher education are presented as well as intercultural competence development in different countries and many scholars’ points of views. The results show certain specifics of intercultural competence development including linguistic competence, linguistic and cultural competence, as well as the components of intercultural competence development: the knowledge of foreign languages, cultural background knowledge, and basic soft skills. It is stated that knowing foreign languages, understanding the national culture of the target language, and having universal soft skills are necessary for successful intercultural competence development. Some soft skills are developed too, such as: tolerance, a sense of responsibility for one’s actions, the ability to empathy, understanding and acceptance of a foreign culture, the ability and desire to understand the difference and unity of one’s culture and the country culture of a target language, a sense of adequate and friendly perception of a foreign language and its realities. It is concluded that it is important to know a theory and have a practice for intercultural competence development and intercultural communication, since a foreign language, culture can only be acquired through activities. As for the specifics of intercultural competence development at the tertiary level in national universities, an indirect character of its development and patterning during intercultural communication are characterized.

scholarly journals CHANGES OF VIEWPOINTS IN INDONESIAN-ENGLISH TRANSLATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-42
Author(s):  
Susini Made ◽  
Sujaya Nyoman
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Cultural Systems ◽  
English Translations ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Cultural Bridge

This study concerns with translation which involves languages that have different linguistic and cultural systems. When a source and target language do not have the same system of language and culture, to some extent, equivalence cannot be directly achieved. By deploying Vinay & Darbelnet’s Modulation (1995) and House’s translation equivalence (2015), this study is to reveal the changes of point of view the translators did in translating texts from Indonesian into English. The data sources of this present study include Indonesian novels and short stories loaded with culture and their English translations. The analysis revealed that to create adequate target texts, the translators changed their points of view through some conditions. The changes include: a) negation of opposite; b) part for the whole; c) abstract for concrete; d) cause for effect; e) active for passive; f) space for time; g) change of symbols; and h) intervals and limits. Changing point of view becomes cultural bridge in the translation which involves languages with different culture.

scholarly journals Pragma-linguistic and Socio-pragmatic Transfer among Iraqi Female EFL Learners in Refusing Marriage Proposals

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tabarek Ali Qassim ◽  
Nawal Fadhil Abbas ◽  
Fatima Falih Ahmed ◽  
Sura Hameed
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Slight Variation ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Pragmatic Transfer ◽  
Lower Status ◽  
Native Speakers Of English ◽  
Linguistic Transfer ◽  
Refusal Strategies

In the framework of this study, the phenomenon of transfer is probed pragma-linguistically and socio-linguistically concerning marriage situations among Iraqi EFL learners. The study also strives to look at the refusal strategies most commonly employed by Iraqi female English as a foreign Language (EFL) learners compared to their counterparts, American native speakers of English. The study involved 70 female participants who answered a Discourse Completion Task (DCT), which contained ten marriage proposals to be refused. Each situation entailed refusal of a person from a higher, an equal, and lower status. The researchers adapted Beebe, Takahashi, and Uliss Weltz’s (1990) taxonomy of refusal for analyzing the data comprehensively. The study’s findings indicated that Iraqi female EFL learners followed similar patterns of refusing marriage situations to American speakers. The most prevalent strategies used by the two groups were “reasons/ excuses and explanations,” followed by “statements of regrets,” and then “non-performative statements” with slight variation in frequency. However, the Iraqi learners’ native language and culture affected how they formulated their refusal; hence they manifested pragma-linguistic and socio-pragmatic transfer in particular areas. The areas of pragma-linguistic transfer included the literal translation of words, expressions, and structures into their refusal in English. As for the socio-pragmatic areas, the transfer occurred in certain Arabic culture features like elaboration, exaggeration, repetition, endearing terms, and many others in expressing the target language, English.

Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Axes as Parameters for Translation Accuracy: Towards Translating Images

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-490
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Mental Image ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Narrative Paradigm ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Translation Accuracy ◽  
Authentic Data

This paper intends to illustrate some of the contributions that semiotics can make to the actual act of translating different texts from Arabic into English and vice versa. It seeks to determine whether or not the syntagmatic and paradigmatic axes can be used as parameters for testing the significance of the sign and, accordingly, translation accuracy. To answer this research question, ample authentic data drawn from existing translations were used. Data analysis showed that in order to reflect accurate mental images in the minds of the target-language readers, extra attention should be paid to issues such as the scope of attention and intention, causation, viewing frames and pace of events in addition to the syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations. In a political discourse, changing a micro sign or a number of micro signs which are favourable to, and acceptable in, a certain language and culture will not only create a different mental image and affect the translation accuracy, but may well promote different narratives as well. Keywords: Arabic-English Translation, Attention, Causation, Image, Narrative, Paradigm, Intention, Semiotics, Sign & Syntagm.

scholarly journals Pragma-linguistic and Socio-pragmatic Transfer among Iraqi Female EFL Learners in Refusing Marriage Proposals

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 521-539
Author(s):  
Tabarek Ali Qassim ◽  
Nawal Fadhel Abbas ◽  
Fatima Falih Ahmed ◽  
Sura Hameed
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Slight Variation ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Pragmatic Transfer ◽  
Lower Status ◽  
Native Speakers Of English ◽  
Linguistic Transfer ◽  
Refusal Strategies

In the framework of this study, the phenomenon of transfer is probed pragma-linguistically and socio-linguistically concerning marriage situations among Iraqi EFL learners. The study also strives to look at the refusal strategies most commonly employed by Iraqi female English as a foreign Language (EFL) learners compared to their counterparts, American native speakers of English. The study involved 70 female participants who answered a Discourse Completion Task (DCT), which contained ten marriage proposals to be refused. Each situation entailed refusal of a person from a higher, an equal, and lower status. The researchers adapted Beebe, Takahashi, and Uliss Weltz’s (1990) taxonomy of refusal for analyzing the data comprehensively. The study’s findings indicated that Iraqi female EFL learners followed similar patterns of refusing marriage situations to American speakers. The most prevalent strategies used by the two groups were “reasons/ excuses and explanations,” followed by “statements of regrets,” and then “non-performative statements” with slight variation in frequency. However, the Iraqi learners’ native language and culture affected how they formulated their refusal; hence they manifested pragma-linguistic and socio-pragmatic transfer in particular areas. The areas of pragma-linguistic transfer included the literal translation of words, expressions, and structures into their refusal in English. As for the socio-pragmatic areas, the transfer occurred in certain Arabic culture features like elaboration, exaggeration, repetition, endearing terms, and many others in expressing the target language, English.

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