Speaking like a Spanish Cow: Cultural Errors in Translation

What is a cultural error? What causes it? What are the consequences of such an error? This volume enables the reader to identify cultural errors and to understand how they are produced. Sometimes they come about because of the gap between the source culture and the target culture, on other occasions they are the result of the cultural inadequacies of the translator, or perhaps the ambiguity arises because of errors in the reception of the translated text. The meta-translational problem of the cultural error is explored in great detail in this book. The authors address the fundamental theoretical issues that underpin the term. The essays examine a variety of topics ranging from the deliberate political manipulation of cultural sources in Russia to the colonial translations at the heart of Edward FitzGeralds famous translation The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Adopting a resolutely transdisciplinary approach, the seventeen contributors to this volume come from a variety of academic backgrounds in music, art, literature, and linguistics. They provide an innovative reading of a key term in translation studies today.

Contributor: Clíona Ní Ríordáin (Edited by), Stephanie Schwerter (Edited by), Charles I. Armstrong (Contributions by), Clíona Ní Ríordáin (Contributions by), Paula Cifuentes-Férez (Contributions by), Ana Isabel Foulquié (Contributions by), Paul Grundy (Contributions by), Katja Grupp (Contributions by), Terence Holden (Contributions by), Costas Mantzalos (Contributions by), Vicky Pericleous (Contributions by), Jean-Charles Meunier (Contributions by), Bentolhoda Nakhaei (Contributions by), Chantal Schütz (Contributions by), Marina Tsvetkova (Contributions by), Angela Vaupel (Contributions by), Michael Cronin (Foreword by), Stephanie Schwerter (Contributions by), Marie Schröer (Contributions by), Gundula Gwenn Hiller (Contributions by)

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