Cultural Functions of Translation: Sustainable Development in the Context of Globalization

Abstract:

This paper aims to account for sustainable development of different cultures in the context of globalization from the perspective of cultural functions of translation, which wield enormous power in constructing representations of the foreign culture and have far reaching effects in the target culture. According to cultural communication of translation, the major task of translation is to turn the cultural information in one language into another. Therefore, in the process of translating, the translator should try his utmost to allow his target language reader to acquire cultural information of the source text in order to promote mutual understanding between Western people and Eastern people and make different cultures co-exist peacefully and achieve sustainable development.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 347-353)
• Pages: 426-430
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.347-353.426
• Online since: October 2011
• Authors: Da Lai Wang
• Keywords: Cultural Functions, Globalization, Sustainable Development, Translation

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