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Publication details [#30420]

Jordan, Shirley Ann. 2002. Ethnographic Encounters: The Processes of Cultural Translation. Language and Intercultural Communication 2 (2) : 96–110.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

anthropology | ethnography | language acquisition | language and culture | translation

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Annotation

This paper describes what the contested concept of cultural translation involves within the interdisciplinary framework constituted by the interface between anthropology and modern language learning. A variety of ethnographic encounters are presented as contexts in which students of modern languages can experiment with the dynamics of cultural translation.