Article,
Study in cultural semantics of translation
Babel: Revue internationale de la traduction/International Journal of Translation, (2009)
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to consider the role of Cultural Semantics in Translation. This paper argues that it will never be a fair translation if something new has not been added to it. Therefore a degree of cultural interface between two language groups (from English to Indian) is required for translating any text. Furthermore, this paper also gives an account of how in nineteenth-century India the colonial agenda of translating indigenous texts was a part of a larger enterprise of Imperialism to the recent times where the attempt has been to rescue the work of translation from the restrictions imposed by the rhetoric of technical rules regarding transference from Source Language to Target Language. The result is one of complete fusion between the Source language and the Target Language.
