A Cognitive Linguistic account of the translator’s sociocultural situatedness and its role in the translation of a medieval devotional text into Present-Day English
A Cognitive Linguistic account of the translator’s sociocultural situatedness and its role in the translation of a medieval devotional text into Present-Day English

Summary/Abstract: The Cultural Turn in Translation Studies sparked researchers’ interest not only in the translation as a cultural and sociological phenomenon, but also in the translator as an agent, rather than a figure who should fade into invisibility. Accordingly, the translator’s cognitive activity is seen as situated in their physical, social and cultural environment. The paper adopts a Cognitive Linguistic approach to the translator’s sociocultural situatedness, showing how it may bear on the translator’s linguistic choices. The paper concludes that to obtain a complete picture of the translator’s activity, it is necessary to illuminate and explore the interconnection of language, cognition and culture.

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