Cultural domains: translation problems

Isabel Negro Alousque

Spain

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Submitted: 2010-10-06

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Accepted: 2010-10-06

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Published: 2010-10-06

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4995/rlyla.2009.740
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Keywords:

cultural word, cultural domain, metaphorical meaning, translation procedures, source language, target language

Supporting agencies:

This research was not funded

Abstract:

Much of the lexis of a language has a cultural referent and is thus specific to a speech community. The meaning of culturally marked words is often difficult to grasp without some cultural knowledge and poses translation problems, particularly when the words are associated with cultural domains (Nida, 2001). In the present paper we focus on the French cultural domain of cooking. After outlining the elements of the domain, we analyse the difficulties in translating the lexical units from the domain and the range of translation procedures which try to account for their meaning.
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