Cultural misunderstandings: problems, challenges, opportunities
New book by Stéphanie Schwerter published by Frank & Timme
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Resulting from the symposium "Les enjeux de l'incompréhension culturelle" ("The challenges of cultural misunderstanding") organized by the Transversal Cluster
Language is linked to culture in that it reflects worldviews specific to a given discursive community. The passage from one language to another induces a cross-perspective that can be as much a source of enrichment as of misunderstanding. This collective work proposes to study misunderstandings in order to understand the mechanisms that underlie them and sometimes make them a necessary step in understanding the other. To this end, the contributions review the definition of certain concepts linked to cultural differences. They explore a variety of contexts, from literature to social interpreting, cinema, theater, graphic novels and social networks. As many language practices are scrutinized (lexical neology, audiovisual translation, multimodal translation...) to understand both the problems, challenges and opportunities linked to cultural misunderstandings.
Publishers
Dominique Dias, lecturer in German linguistics at Sorbonne University (Paris) and member of CELISO (Centre de linguistique en Sorbonne)
Nadine Rentel, professor of Romance languages (French, Italian) at Zwickau University of Applied Sciences in Germany
Stephanie Schwerter, professor of British literature and translatology at the Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France (Valenciennes).