Cultural Problems in Translation

Author(s)	SWATI DHARA, HARI PADMA RANI PEDDI
Country	India
Abstract	Abstract – This paper deals with several instances where translation becomes difficult in the cultural context, with special reference to translating the Telugu novel, Repati Velugu (1965?, Reprint 2010), written by Dwivedula Visalakshi, into English. One of the major problems in translation is the dissimilarity in the cultures of the source language and target language makes it very difficult to find a proper translation equivalent. The English culture, which gives the freedom to call any elder member of a family or a stranger by their names, is quite in contrast to the Indian traditional context. The honorific, usually attached to an ‘Indian’ address of an elderly person or one unacquainted, is missing in English. As such, it is not possible to use any rough equivalent with the status of a near equivalent. The quest for finding a perfect word is successful sometimes, but it also fails at many other times. This paper focuses on some of the crucial situations where one gets into a fix, not able to find proper translation equivalents.
Keywords	dissimilarity, translation equivalent, Indian culture
Field	Arts
Published In	Volume 6, Issue 4, July-August 2024
Published On	2024-08-11
Cite This	Cultural Problems in Translation - SWATI DHARA, HARI PADMA RANI PEDDI - IJFMR Volume 6, Issue 4, July-August 2024. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i04.25990
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i04.25990
Short DOI	https://doi.org/gt65c5

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