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Cultural Conceptualizations in Translation and Language Applications

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Editors:
  1. Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk

    1. State University of Applied Sciences in Konin, Konin, Poland

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  • Goes beyond the usual compartmentalized linguistic research and focuses on the phenomena of cultural conceptualizations in translation and in various applications of language, including foreign language teaching – Cultural Linguistics is a new approach to language studies
  • Discusses social and cognitive phenomena in different contexts such as foreign language teaching, cultural models, and sign language, illustrating them with rich empirical findings
  • Shows the interdisciplinary character that sheds new light on the phenomena of language and culture in terms of cultural conceptualization phenomena

Part of the book series: Second Language Learning and Teaching (SLLT)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Translation and Culture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Primary and Secondary Translations and Their Cultural Implications

      • Wolfgang Lörscher
      Pages 3-13

    3. The Bible Translation Imbroglio

      • Tomasz Paweł Krzeszowski
      Pages 15-33

    4. Welcome to the Gap: The Cultural Gap of Translation at the Age of New Media

      • Dror Abend-David
      Pages 35-46

    5. Cycles of Conceptualization and Reconceptualization in Translating Figurative Language

      • Awadh G. Ba-awaidhan
      Pages 47-63

    6. How to Measure the Presence and Significance of Intertextuality in Target Language Texts

      • Marek Gralewski
      Pages 65-83

    7. (Re)translating Psychology: A Triple Case Study. Sociology and Psychology in Translation

      • Marcin Kosman
      Pages 85-105

    8. Drama Translation into Arabic. Shakespeare’s Macbeth: Issues and Solutions

      • Ferhat Mameri, Wissal Ali Jafar AlAllaq
      Pages 107-135

    9. The Translator’s Ideology in the Poetic Text. Homoeroticism in Shakespeare’s Sonnets

      • Tanya Escudero
      Pages 137-150

    10. Methodology of Reading and Translating German Handwritten Documents from the Turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

      • Grzegorz Pawłowski
      Pages 151-167

    11. The Impact of Style on the Quality of Writing and Translation

      • Agnieszka Gadomska, Marcin Szwed
      Pages 169-181
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About this book

The book comprises a selection of 14 papers concerning the general theme of cultural conceptualizations in communication and translation, as well as in various applications of language.
Ten papers in first part Translation and Culture cover the topics of a cognitive approach to conceptualizations of Source Language – versus Target Language – texts in translation, derived from general language, media texts, and literature.
The second part Applied Cultural Models comprises four papers discussing cultural conceptualizations of language in the educational context, particularly of Foreign Language Teaching, in online communication and communication in deaf communities. 


Editors and Affiliations

  • State University of Applied Sciences in Konin, Konin, Poland

    Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cultural Conceptualizations in Translation and Language Applications

  • Editors: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk

  • Series Title: Second Language Learning and Teaching

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43336-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43335-2Published: 09 April 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43338-3Published: 09 April 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-43336-9Published: 08 April 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2193-7648

  • Series E-ISSN: 2193-7656

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 261

  • Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Translation, Educational Psychology

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