Strategies for Overcoming Cultural Barriers in Translation

Abstract

Abstract
The present paper will investigate the cultural categories, mainly, ecology, material, social and religious culture; and the strategies available for overcoming the cultural barriers in translation from English into Arabic and vice versa. These strategies have been chosen according to a number of factors such as cultural context and the linguistic system.
It is found that there is no blanket decision for a particular text type nor a unique solution existing for a given cultural element. Instead, the translator chooses from the possible strategies by considering the nature of the term to be translated,i.e., its semantic content and linguistic expression in the source language and its contrastive relationship to the possible correspondents in the target language.