Theory and Practice in Language Studies, Vol 2, No 2 (2012), 343-347, Feb 2012
doi:10.4304/tpls.2.2.343-347
A Brief Analysis of Culture and Translation
Abstract
Language and culture are closely related to each other. Language is part of the culture of people and the chief way by which the members of a society communicate. This paper will focus on the influence of culture on translation and provide us the semantic and pragmatic equivalence approaches in translation with large amounts of representative examples. Thus we can know the relation between culture and translation better.
Keywords
culture; translation; semantic and pragmatic equivalence
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