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    The Translation of Culture: How a society is perceived by other societies
    The Translation of Culture: How a society is perceived by other societies
    The Translation of Culture: How a society is perceived by other societies
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    The Translation of Culture: How a society is perceived by other societies

    By Bruno Osimo

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    A culture is a way of perceiving reality. Do not be misled by the verb “perceive”. Some might think that, if the objective reality of a culture is the same, its perception must also be unique for all individuals. But perception is a subjective phenomenon, and what is perceived is not the photograph of reality, but one of the many possible photographs. The individual’s experience also influences her perceptive modalities.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBruno Osimo
    Release dateNov 15, 2020
    ISBN9788898467204
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      It is a very interesting read. Some of the discussions brought about in the paper have helped me understand culture and translation in much more depth. The author really dissects culture within translation.

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    The Translation of Culture - Bruno Osimo

    Bruno Osimo

    The Translation of Culture

    How a society is perceived by other societies

    2019

    Copyright © Bruno Osimo 2019

    Original title: Traduzione della cultura

    Translation from Italian by Bruno Osimo

    Bruno Osimo is an author/translator who publishes himself

    Printing is realized on a print-on-sale basis by Kindle Direct Publishing

    ISBN  9791281358010 for the hardcover edition

    ISBN 9788898467204 for the ebook edition

    To contact the author/translator/publisher: osimo@trad.it

    Culture as a translation of reality

    A culture is a way of perceiving reality. Do not be misled by the verb perceive. Some might think that, if the objective reality of a culture is the same, its perception must also be unique for all individuals. But perception is a subjective phenomenon, and what is perceived is not the photograph of reality, but one of the many possible photographs. The individual’s experience also influences her perceptive modalities.

    When we read a newspaper, the materials are divided into various categories: politics, news, entertainment, commentary, sports, and so on. Similarly, within a culture we tend to use certain categories into which perceived reality is decomposed – often implicitly, taking it for granted. There are newspapers that dedicate a page to economy, others that dedicate twenty-five to it and do not call them economy, but divide the subject more specifically into stock exchange, finance, companies, and so on. There are newspapers that have a page on boating, others that have a page on mountaineering. In the latter case, news that could appear on the nautical page ends up, in the absence of anything else, in a generic area, perhaps dedicated to various news or sports. The reality reflected by these newspapers is the same, but the interpretation given to them is different, the categorization different. And to perceive implies that the perceived reality is typologised (and therefore interpreted), because this is the only way to treasure past experience in understanding the present[1].

    We have talked about the implicit typology of reality: and in fact any text has two components:

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