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1、CultureDifferencesandTranslationAbstractInterlingualcommunicationisactuallyinterculturalcommunication,Languageispartofthecultureofapeopleandthechiefwaybywhichthemembersofasocietycommunicate。Basingonthesepoints,thisarticlegivesexamplestoshowthefactsthatthereexistsintranslationsemanticco
2、rrespondenceandsemanticzerobetweendifferentlanguagesanddifferentcultures.Whenwedotranslatingweshouldtrytomakeupsemanticzerocausedbytheculture.1.WhatisAGoodTranslationTranslationis,infact,aconvertingprocess.Theoretically,agoodtranslationshouldgiveitsreaderthesameconceptionaswhatanativer
3、eadergetsfromtheoriginal.Nida[1]remarkedthathowtodetermineagoodtranslationistheresponseofthereceptortothetranslatedmessage,andthismessagemustthenbecomparedwiththewayinwhichtheoriginalreceptorspresumablyreactedtothemessagewhenitwasgiveninitsoriginalsetting.Jakobson[2]heldtheviewthattran
4、slationdoesnotjustmeanthechangeofsymbolsintoanotherlanguage,butitisaprocessofinformationsubstitution.Thetaskofatranslatoristotranslatetheinformationhereceivesintosymbolswhichhewillsendout.Catford[3]explainedthatintranslationthereisnomeaningequivalence,butjustthesignifierequivalence.Bec
5、auseofthedifferencesbetweentheoriginallanguageandthetargetlanguage,thereexiststhetranslationequivalence[4]limitedness.Thislimitednessisnotonlymanifestedinthemeaningofwords,grammaticalfeatures,butalsomanifestedinculturaldifferencesmoreseriously.2.CultureandLanguagePerhapscultureisoneoft
6、hemostdifficulttermstodefine.Differentpeopleinaccordancewiththeirdifferentspecialtieshavegivendifferentdefinitions.Eshlemansays“Theterm‘culture’meansdifferentthingstodifferentpeople.”Inthemindsofmanypeople,itisassociatedwithsuchactivitiesasattendingtheopera,listeningtoclassicalmusicand
7、goingtoartmuseums.Asusedbysociologistsandculturalanthropologists,howeverculturehasadifferentmeaning.Tosociologists,acultureisasystemofideas,values,beliefs,knowledge,norms,customsandtechnologysharedbyalmosteveryoneinaparticularsociety.Acultureisasocietiessystemofcommonheritageandeacho
