A STUDY OF CROSS-CULTURAL TRANSLATION
Keywords:
Translate, civilizations, cultural variances, and translateability.Abstract
Language contact is the first kind of interaction to emerge across various cultures and countries; without it, effective communication is all but impossible. Thus, it is clear that translation may be extremely important for cross-cultural communication. To put it another way, it may be a helpful tool for bridging disparate cultures, languages, faiths, and points of view. In this essay, we examine the unavoidable role that translation plays in promoting cross-cultural communication as well as the extent to which translation might address the issue. Whorf’s and Chomsky’s theories have been used to study the latter, taking into account cultural variations and the translatability vs. untranslatability of cultural factors. Through mutual understanding and knowledge of many cultures, the world today will attain a better state of existence through language barrier surmounting, which is imperceptibly present in all forms of communication.
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