Translation as a means of understanding culture and intercul-tural integration in the context of cognitive linguistics

Abstract

The following article focuses on translation in the light of ‘scopos’ theory and the theory defining translation as a kind of translating activity. Translating activity is not only a form of intercultural activity and does not limit itself to translating the original text into another language, but it is also connected with the transfer of cultural aware-ness. Cultural determinant of translation requires from the translator adequate prediction, comprehension of scopos and correct prediction of cognitive aspects characteristic of a recipient of the translated text. The author applies the theory of cognitive linguistics to describe cognitive processes. The following notions are explained: text, context, words, comprehension, perception ,meaning ,sense. The problems of mutual dependence between language and culture have been discussed.
This disquisition is summed up by a short presentation of translation strategies aiming at the affirmation that the translated text is coherent with the target culture, which is a requirement of intercultural integration.