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Translation Studies: Retrospective and Prospective Views ISSN 2065-3514 (2009) Year II, Issue 5 Galaţi University Press Editors: Elena Croitoru & Floriana Popescu Proceedings of the 4th Conference Translation Studies: Retrospective and Prospective Views 8-9 October 2009, “Dunărea de Jos” University, Galaţi, ROMÂNIA pp. 112-118 LANGUAGE, POWER, TRANSLATION AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION Alexandru PRAISLER 1. Contemporary culture. Focus on language Cultural models (or culturally shared attitudes) are rooted in people’s ideas about the world they live in. Although potentially transmittable in a variety of ways, cultural models are mainly passed on via language. The linguistic transmission of culture may take overt forms (proverbs, myths, legends) or covert ones (through daily communicative interaction), both linked to the core notion of reality – which is neither absolute nor abstract, but experienced “within familiar contexts of social behaviour and cultural meanings.” (Bonvillain 2003: 47) As pointed out by renowned scholars in linguistic anthropology, “the worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels” (Sapir 1949: 162). Furthermore, the “concepts of time and matter are not given in substantially the same form by experience to all people, but depend upon the nature of the language or languages through the use of which they have been developed” (Whorf 1939: 135). In other words, communication through language is only partly efficient crossculturally, since consensual referentiality remains on slippery ground and people’s perception of / interaction with the world around is intertwined with the possibilities of having it expressed. On a larger scale, if initially culture and language have grown together and have mutually influenced one another, this state of correlation has gradually been lost, as cultures have evolved much more rapidly than languages and as we are observably moving towards a phase where “the forms of language will in course of time cease to symbolise those of culture.” (Sapir op. cit: 102) In our global world today, the prophecy seems to actually take place: English as lingua franca mainly serves culturally empty communicative purposes in the pragmatic, mostly money-oriented documents circulating around the globe; scientific and technological development has led to a new, international vocabulary and to new language patterns and structures in the global language thus emerging (mostly resembling English, if not English outright); power relations breathe through the language thus enforced on many or all the linguistic communities of the world, taking on a more markedly political than cultural component; global English is increasingly practiced outside the native speaker boundaries, modifying core/native linguistic specificities. As a second, rather than foreign language, English is also intensively acquiring new forms, covering new ground, taking on a multimedia component. In this respect, two opinions in particular stay in mind: • Alastair Pennycock’s: “What I think is sorely lacking from the predominant paradigm of investigation into English as an international language is a broad range of social, historical, cultural and political relationships. There is a failure to problematise the notion of choice and 112
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