AL-MUTARĞIM المترجم
Volume 3, Numéro 1, Pages 63-68
2003-06-30

The Concept Translation: A Socio-cultural Problematics

Authors : Amine Belmekki .

Abstract

Human being, actually, provides language so that it structures his social world. Language refers to socio-cultural practices, i.e. speech. This article suggests socio-cultural approach to language in human and social sciences, since the language is the key element used for cultural identification. Number of linguists and sociolinguists get convinced that two languages can never be similar since they haven’t the same vision of the same reality. When moving from one language to another, translator must take into consideration the socio-cultural context the languages are coded through.

Keywords

Translation ; Socio-linguistics ; Socio-cultural context ; Language ; Culture.