Language, Translation, and Culture

Abstract

Language is a phenomenon and a factor that links different cultures and a way of expressing feelings and ideas that people try to convey. We are going to study the main roles of translation in transferring cultural concepts between two or more languages and some barriers or difficulties that translators face in this process. We know that translation plays an important role of crossing through different cultures and communication. Therefore translation is one of the essential, fundamental, and adequate ways in transferring culture, but there are some limitations such as censorship and even culture itself. This paper also aimed to represent some barriers in the process of translation. A good translator should simultaneously be aware of the cultural factors, views and tradition in order to consciously consider the chronological orders, explicit meaning, development of related disciplines, historical and religious background of the source text. Finally, it is essential to evoke the same response as the source text attempted to and avoid inserting irrelevant new words into language used by people. All these factors must be taken into account in translating process.

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