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1、CultureDifferencesandTranslationAbstractInterlingualcommunicationisactuallyinterculturalcommunication,Languageispartofthecultureofapeopleandthechiefwaybywhichthemembersofasocietycommunicate。Basingonthesepoints,thisarticlegivesexamplestoshowthefactsthatthereexistsintranslationseman
2、ticcorrespondenceandsemanticzerobetweendifferentlanguagesanddifferentcultures.Whenwedotranslatingweshouldtrytomakeupsemanticzerocausedbytheculture.1.WhatisAGoodTranslationTranslationis,infact,aconvertingprocess.Theoretically,agoodtranslationshouldgiveitsreaderthesameconceptionaswh
3、atanativereadergetsfromtheoriginal.Nida[1]remarkedthathowtodetermineagoodtranslationistheresponseofthereceptortothetranslatedmessage,andthismessagemustthenbecomparedwiththewayinwhichtheoriginalreceptorspresumablyreactedtothemessagewhenitwasgiveninitsoriginalsetting.Jakobson[2]held
4、theviewthattranslationdoesnotjustmeanthechangeofsymbolsintoanotherlanguage,butitisaprocessofinformationsubstitution.Thetaskofatranslatoristotranslatetheinformationhereceivesintosymbolswhichhewillsendout.Catford[3]explainedthatintranslationthereisnomeaningequivalence,butjustthesign
5、ifierequivalence.Becauseofthedifferencesbetweentheoriginallanguageandthetargetlanguage,thereexiststhetranslationequivalence[4]limitedness.Thislimitednessisnotonlymanifestedinthemeaningofwords,grammaticalfeatures,butalsomanifestedinculturaldifferencesmoreseriously.2.CultureandLangu
6、agePerhapscultureisoneofthemostdifficulttermstodefine.Differentpeopleinaccordancewiththeirdifferentspecialtieshavegivendifferentdefinitions.Eshlemansays“Theterm‘culture’meansdifferentthingstodifferentpeople.”Inthemindsofmanypeople,itisassociatedwithsuchactivitiesasattendingtheoper
7、a,listeningtoclassicalmusicandgoingtoartmuseums.Asusedbysociologistsandculturalanthropologists,howeverculturehasadifferentmeaning.Tosociologists,acultureisasystemofideas,values,beliefs,knowledge,norms,customsandtechnologysharedbyalmosteveryoneinaparticularsociety.Acultureisasociet
8、iessystemofcommonheritageandeacho
