Languages – Cultures – Worldviews: Focus on Translation

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This edited book explores languages and cultures (or linguacultures) from a translation perspective, resting on the assumption that they find expression as linguacultural worldviews. Specifically, it investigates how these worldviews emerge, how they are constructed, shaped and modified in and through translation, understood both as a process and a product. The book’s content progresses from general to specific: from the notions of worldview and translation, through a consideration of how worldviews are shaped in and through language, to a discussion of worldviews in translation, both in macro-scale and in specific details of language structure and use. The contributors to the volume are linguists, linguistic anthropologists, practising translators, and/or translation studies scholars, and the book will be of interest to scholars and students in any of these fields. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii Introduction (Adam Głaz)....Pages 1-15 Front Matter ....Pages 17-17 Linguistic Relativity in the Age of Ontology: How Language Shapes Worldview and Ways of Being, Even Going Beyond the Human (Sean O’Neill)....Pages 19-52 Translating a Worldview in the longue durée: The Tale of “The Bear’s Son” (Roslyn M. Frank)....Pages 53-80 Front Matter ....Pages 81-81 Translation as Philology as Love (John Leavitt)....Pages 83-108 Bourdieu’s Distinction: (Translating) Language as a Means of Expressing Worldviews (Nigel Armstrong)....Pages 109-136 The Sociological Turn in Translation Studies and Pierre Bourdieu’s Sociology: A Case of Convergence or Divergence? (Patrycja Karpińska)....Pages 137-156 Front Matter ....Pages 157-157 Translational Roots of Western Essentialism (Piotr Blumczynski)....Pages 159-182 Buber/Rosenzweig’s and Meschonnic’s Bible Translations: Biblical Hebrew as Transformer of Language Theory and Society (Marko Pajevič)....Pages 183-210 St. Petro Mohyla’s Catechism in Translation: A Term System via the Prism of Axiological Modelling and Cultural Matrix (Taras Shmiher)....Pages 211-236 Borrowings and the Linguistic Worldview or How to Domesticate Foreignness (Jerzy Bartmiński)....Pages 237-258 Front Matter ....Pages 259-259 Do Paradoxes Have a Place in Worldviews? Conceptual Configurations of “Heart” and Their Contradictions in English and Other Languages (James W. Underhill)....Pages 261-291 Traces of Speaker’s Worldview in Translations of EU Parliamentary Debate (Anna Wyrwa)....Pages 293-318 The Cultural Semantics of Untranslatables: Linguistic Worldview and the Danish Language of Laughter (Carsten Levisen)....Pages 319-346 Front Matter ....Pages 347-347 Norwegian Translations of Anne of Green Gables: Omissions and Textual Manipulations (Susan Erdmann, Barbara Gawrońska Pettersson)....Pages 349-366 Cultural References and Linguistic Exponents of Gender in the Norwegian Translation of Michał Witkowski’s Lubiewo (Barbara Gawrońska Pettersson)....Pages 367-391 The Many Faces of Alice: Twists and Turns of Lewis Carroll’s Classic in Poland (Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska)....Pages 393-413 Historical Narrative as a Culture Text (Elżbieta Tabakowska)....Pages 415-429 Back Matter ....Pages 431-440