Cultural Barriers in Translation Process

CULTURAL BARRIERS IN TRANSLATION PROCESS   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.   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.   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.   UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE The words of any language which represent man-made ubiquitous objects (mirror, pen or chair) are counted as the tokens of universal language (UL). Nevertheless, the (UL) also includes such words th