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.

Distribution and translation

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tong King Lee
Keyword(s):  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
First Order ◽  
Language System ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Distributed Language

Abstract Translation has traditionally been viewed as a branch of applied linguistics. This has changed drastically in recent decades, which have witnessed translation studies growing as a field beyond, and sometimes against, applied linguistics. This paper is an attempt to think translation back into applied linguistics by reconceptualizing translation through the notions of distributed language, semiotic repertoire, and assemblage. It argues that: (a) embedded within a larger textual-media ecology, translation is enacted through dialogical interaction among the persons, texts, technologies, platforms, institutions, and traditions operating within that ecology; (b) what we call translations are second-order constructs, or relatively stable formations of signs abstracted from the processual flux of translating on the first-order; (c) translation is not just about moving a work from one discrete language system across to another, but about distributing it through semiotic repertoires; (d) by orchestrating resources performatively, translations are not just interventions in the target language and culture, but are transformative of the entire translingual and multimodal space (discursive, interpretive, material) surrounding a work. The paper argues that distributed thinking helps us de-fetishize translation as an object of study and reimagine translators as partaking of a creative network of production alongside other human and non-human agents.

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 THE NECESSITY OF IMPROVING CULTURAL AWARENESS OF EFL LEARNERS IN STMIK HANDAYANI MAKASSAR

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Yuliah Abdul Haris
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
First Language ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Foreign Language Learners ◽  
The Relationship

This paper mainly discusses the relationship between language and culture. Language and culture are closely related. If one does not understand the cultural backgrounds, he or she cannot learn the target language really well because any language is an integral part of its culture. Moreover, misunderstanding between the speaker whose first language is English and the speaker whose first language is not English occur between them.  The writer believes that there is still an important cultural element missing from foreign language education in Indonesian EFL classes in such as in STMIK Handayani Makassar. Therefore, English learning in STMIK Handayani Makassar should not only to learn the language, but also to learn its culture. To improve students’ sensitivity for cultural difference between the West and the East and to raise their cultural awareness, English teachers at schools are required not only to teach language but also to impart cultural background knowledge and further to deal with the relationship between language and culture well. This article starts with the necessity of teaching cultural awareness in English teaching at schools, and then this paper discusses some common cultural language mistakes by English Foreign Language learners in STMIK Handayani Makassar.

scholarly journals Translation spaces

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Hamaidia ◽  
Sarah Methven ◽  
Jane Woodin
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Fluid Exchange ◽  
Academic Fields ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
Intercultural Encounters ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Development Practice

Abstract This article addresses the relationship between translation, intercultural communication and international development practice as encountered in the field. Through tracing parallel developments in the academic fields of translation studies and intercultural communication studies, it highlights the move from static concepts of language, nation, and culture to the fluid exchange spaces of multilingual and intercultural encounters. In-the-field examples of international development challenges are examined and discussed in the light of these theoretical shifts. We propose (a) that both fields of study can learn from each other, (b) that translation training should account for the messy intercultural spaces of contact zones, and (c) that guidance on intercultural practice be further developed to benefit those working in the field.

Manifestation in the English Grammar of Cultural Context as One of the Dimensions of Intercultural Communication

2021 ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
O. Baranova
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
English Grammar ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Language Structure ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
The One

The current trends of globalization and active intercultural contacts reveal practical importance of developing awareness in the issue of correlation of language and culture. The article studies the linguistic side thereof, namely, manifestation of cultural dimensions (cultural context) in the language structure, which can contribute to more conscious study of the language, on the one hand, and to implementation of intercultural communication practices on the other, as correlation between structural (grammar) phenomena and cultural dimensions could make it possible to create a cultural portrait of a nation basing on the linguistic data.

Cultural Customs Learning and Intercultural Communication

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 99-104
Author(s):  
Xiaochi Zhang ◽  
Jinjing ZHANG
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Native People ◽  
Component Part ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Foreign Language Learners

Cultural customs learning should be a component part of foreign language learning. Cultural customs have very important functions in intercultural communication, which influence the people’s behaviors and ways in special cultural context, and even essential conditions that people from different cultural backgrounds make better and smoother intercultural communication. However, foreign language learners often overlooked learning cultural customs and misunderstood cultural customs, so that they always made unsuccessful intercultural communication with the native people. In this article, the author takes a Chinese character “Fu” for an example, elaborates a real story that the author experienced in person more than ten years ago and analyzes the relationships between language and culture, and then discusses about the important effects of cultural customs in intercultural communication and adaptation. Finally, the author gives some suggestions of how to adapt to a new culture, especially a new cultural custom in order to have a better understanding one new culture and have a good communication with the native people.

Criminogenic Risk, Criminogenic Need, Collective Efficacy, and Juvenile Delinquency

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (9) ◽  
pp. 1116-1135
Author(s):  
Michael C. Gearhart ◽  
Riley Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Delinquency ◽  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Fragile Families ◽  
Delinquent Behaviors ◽  
Reciprocal Relationships ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Rnr Model ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Do So

Juvenile delinquency is influenced by reciprocal relationships between micro-level and macro-level factors. The risk, need, and responsivity (RNR) model, and collective efficacy theory are two commonly used frameworks in juvenile justice research. This study builds on previous research by testing indicators of both the RNR model and collective efficacy theory as predictors of self-reported juvenile delinquency utilizing data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. Taken as a whole, our findings suggest that individual-level factors are strong predictors of self-reported juvenile delinquency, whereas the relationship between collective efficacy and juvenile delinquency is limited. This finding emphasizes the importance of addressing individual needs when implementing community-level interventions aimed at preventing delinquency. Failure to do so may result in merely displacing juvenile delinquency as opposed to helping youth desist from delinquent behaviors.

scholarly journals Cultural Mistranslation and Intercultural Communication--A Case Study of Chinese Reports on Zhai Tiantian’s Incident in the U.S.A.

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 95-101
Author(s):  
Xiaochi Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Specific Incident ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The Relationship

Globalization enters a world in which people of different cultural backgrounds and increasingly comes to depend on one another. To understand and accept cultural differences becomes imperative to be effective in intercultural communication in global society. In this process, translation has played an important role in intercultural mass communication connecting different cultures and different nations. However, people including translators and reporters from another culture sometime misunderstood some incidents and were unbelieving what happened with the specific incident due to mistranslation which resulted in misreports from mass media. Therefore, the author will take Zhai Tiantian’s incident in the U.S.A. as a case and make further analysis of the relationship between language and culture, and the function of translation in the intercultural communication. Finally, the author also discusses how to make intercultural translation better in order to promote intercultural communication between different people from different cultural backgrounds.

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 Learning Translation and Multi-culture to Reduce Social Conflict

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Aris Wuryantoro
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Social Conflict ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Grammatical Structure ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Language User ◽  
Structure Communication

<p>This study aims to describe the role of learning translation with enhancing multi-culture understanding to reduce social conflict in society. This study used descriptive qualitative method by using documentation technique in collecting data. The source of the data are documentations in the form of intralingual and interlingual translation. The result of the study reveals that translation has four aspects, there are meaning, grammatical structure, communication situation, and cultural context. Besides, translation is closely related to cultural context aspect because translation contains at least cultural aspect from source language and target language. The researchers conclude that learning translation can enhance multi-culture in order to reduce social conflicts. The language used by one society automatically shows its language user or its social identity. The researcher concludes that by mastering language and culture of one society as a part of learning translation, we can reduce social conflict which mainly caused by misunderstanding toward the used language and culture.  </p>

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document