Cultural Barriers in Translation Process

1-      WHAT IS CULTURE Peter New Mark (1956) defines culture as the way of life and its manifestations that are peculiar to a community that uses a particular language as its means of expression.   2-      WHAT IS TRANSLATION Translation is a meanings making process. A good translation provides a converted version of the source language in the target language however, its focus remains on conveying the same conception keeping in view, particularly, the cultural values of the latter.   3-      LANGUAGE TYPES AS TRANSLATION BARRIERS The recognition with the following three forms of any language helps us understand how a language type, which involves the role of culture, poses a hindrance in the way of proper and suitable translation.   3.1      UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE The words of any language which represent man-made ubiquitous objects (mirror, pen or chair) are counted as the tokens of univer...