Cultural and linguistic peculiarities in translation. The analysis of the Italian and Polish contexts Cover Image

Le particolarità culturali e linguistiche nella traduzione. Analisi del contesto italo-polacco
Cultural and linguistic peculiarities in translation. The analysis of the Italian and Polish contexts

Author(s): Claudio Salmeri
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: interchange; cultural translation; mediation; interpretation; interculturalism

Summary/Abstract: Over the last few decades the interest in translation has significantly increased due to global changes. Nowadays translation implies interchange between cultures. Translation has a sociocultural context and is a communicative activity that includes the transfer of information across linguistic boundaries. Together with the introduction of the term ‘cultural mediation’, the theory of ‘cultural translation’ has also appeared, generally used to refer to transactions that do not openly involve linguistic exchange. The objective of this paper is to discuss the difficult role and responsibility the Italian-Polish translator has in terms of cultural mediation and translation.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 27
  • Page Range: 219-229
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Italian