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1、CultureDifferencesandTranslationAbstractInterlingualcommunicationisactuallyinterculturalcommunication,Languageispartofthecultureofapeopleandthechiefwaybywhichthemembersofasocietycommunicate。Basingonthesepoints,thisarticlegivesexamplestoshowthefactsthatthereexistsintranslationsemant
2、iccorrespondenceandsemanticzerobetweendifferentlanguagesanddifferentcultures.Whenwedotranslatingweshouldtrytomakeupsemanticzerocausedbytheculture.1.WhatisAGoodTranslationTranslationis,infact,aconvertingprocess.Theoretically,agoodtranslationshouldgiveitsreaderthesameconceptionaswhat
3、anativereadergetsfromtheoriginal.Nida[1]remarkedthathowtodetermineagoodtranslationistheresponseofthereceptortothetranslatedmessage,andthismessagemustthenbecomparedwiththewayinwhichtheoriginalreceptorspresumablyreactedtothemessagewhenitwasgiveninitsoriginalsetting.Jakobson[2]heldthe
4、viewthattranslationdoesnotjustmeanthechangeofsymbolsintoanotherlanguage,butitisaprocessofinformationsubstitution.Thetaskofatranslatoristotranslatetheinformationhereceivesintosymbolswhichhewillsendout.Catford[3]explainedthatintranslationthereisnomeaningequivalence,butjustthesignifie
5、requivalence.Becauseofthedifferencesbetweentheoriginallanguageandthetargetlanguage,thereexiststhetranslationequivalence[4]limitedness.Thislimitednessisnotonlymanifestedinthemeaningofwords,grammaticalfeatures,butalsomanifestedinculturaldifferencesmoreseriously.2.CultureandLanguagePe
6、rhapscultureisoneofthemostdifficulttermstodefine.Differentpeopleinaccordancewiththeirdifferentspecialtieshavegivendifferentdefinitions.Eshlemansays“Theterm‘culture’meansdifferentthingstodifferentpeople.”Inthemindsofmanypeople,itisassociatedwithsuchactivitiesasattendingtheopera,list
7、eningtoclassicalmusicandgoingtoartmuseums.Asusedbysociologistsandculturalanthropologists,howeverculturehasadifferentmeaning.Tosociologists,acultureisasystemofideas,values,beliefs,knowledge,norms,customsandtechnologysharedbyalmosteveryoneinaparticularsociety.Acultureisasocietiessyst
8、emofcommonheritageandeacho