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Translation and Cultural Identity: Romanian Culturemes in the Works of Ion Creangă and Mihail Sadoveanu
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Abstract: Identity has always been viewed as a key notion in translation studies. Time and again people assume that national identity is homogeneous and that it manifests itself in a particular language and culture. Nowadays, translation takes place in such a context where identity, culture or tradition is no longer homogeneous. In the process of translation – since so many new traditions and cultures are brought into focus – identities are slowly fading out or removed to make way for new ones. Translation allows existing identities to open up as host languages and cultures and it makes the creation of new areas of identity easy, the result resting upon the translator’s ability to bridge cultural differences. This present article provides a glimpse into the labor the translators go through when it comes to maintaining and negotiating meaning, identity and cultural differences between two languages.
Keywords: translation, culture, identity, culturemes, culture specific items.
Citation suggestion: Mureșan, Anca. “Translation and Cultural Identity: Romanian Culturemes in the Works of Ion Creangă and Mihail Sadoveanu”. Transilvania, no. 3 (2021): 41-46. https://doi.org/10.51391/trva.2021.03.06.
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