Translating Cultures

David Katan is Full Professor of Language and Translation at the University of Salento in Italy, a visiting professor at the University of South Africa, and Editor of Cultus: the Journal of Intercultural Mediation and Communication. Recent publications include keyword entries for Routledge Encyclopedias and Benjamins Handbooks on translation: ‘Culture’, ‘Defining Culture … Defining Translation’, ‘Translating Tourism’ and ‘Transcreation’.Mustapha Taibi is Associate Professor in Interpreting and Translation at Western Sydney University, and Editor of Translation & Interpreting: The International Journal of Translation and Interpreting Research. His most recent books are Community Translation (2016), New Insights into Arabic Translation and Interpreting (2016), Translating for the Community (2018), and Multicultural Health Translation, Interpreting and Communication (Routledge, 2019).

'A classic remastered through intercultural collaboration – Katan and Taibi connect culture research with translation studies in an eminently practical and instructive way, offering multiple handles on some of the most pressing problems of our age.' Anthony Pym, University of Melbourne, Australia

• List of figures and tablesAcknowledgementsPreface to the third editionPreface to the second editionIntroductionPart 1. Framing Culture: The Culture-Bound Mental Map of the World.Chapter 1: The Translator, Interpreter and Cultural Mediator Chapter 2: Defining, Modelling and Teaching CultureChapter 3: Frames and LevelsChapter 4: Logical Levels and CultureChapter 5: Language and CultureChapter 6 Perception and Meta-ModelPart 2. Shifting Frames: Translation and Mediation in Theory and PracticeChapter 7: Translation/MediationChapter 8 ChunkingPart 3. The Array of Frames: Communication OrientationsChapter 9: Cultural OrientationsChapter 10: ContextingChapter 11: Transactional CommunicationChapter 12: Interactional CommunicationConcluding remarksReferencesIndex