<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This paper summarizes the results of the translation work carried out within an international project aiming to develop the language skills of staff working in hotel and catering services. As the topics touched upon in the English source texts are related to several European cultures, these cultural differences bring about several challenges related to the translation of realia, or culture-specific items (CSIs). In the first part of the paper, a series of translation strategies for rendering source-language CSIs into the target language are enlisted, while the second part presents the main strategies employed in the prepared translations.</p></abstract>

This paper summarizes the results of the translation work carried out within an international project aiming to develop the language skills of staff working in hotel and catering services. As the topics touched upon in the English source texts are related to several European cultures, these cultural differences bring about several challenges related to the translation of realia, or culture-specific items (CSIs). In the first part of the paper, a series of translation strategies for rendering source-language CSIs into the target language are enlisted, while the second part presents the main strategies employed in the prepared translations.

Cultural Interchangeability? Culture-Specific Items in Translation

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

{"article-title":"Cultural Interchangeability? Culture-Specific Items in Translation"}

This paper summarizes the results of the translation work carried out within an international project aiming to develop the language skills of staff working in...

Cultural Interchangeability? Culture-Specific Items in Translation

Publié en ligne: 07 févr. 2017

Pages: 79 - 92

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2016-0019

Mots clés
realia, translation strategy, intercultural communication, cultural sensitivity

© 2016 Zsuzsanna Ajtony, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Cultural Interchangeability? Culture-Specific Items in Translation

Publié en ligne: 07 févr. 2017

Pages: 79 - 92

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2016-0019

Mots clésrealia, translation strategy, intercultural communication, cultural sensitivity

© 2016 Zsuzsanna Ajtony, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
realia, translation strategy, intercultural communication, cultural sensitivity