Heterogeneity of Culture in Literature

Abstract

The definition of “culture” as given in the Concise Oxford Dictionary varies from descriptions of the “Arts” to plant and bacteria cultivation and includes a wide range of intermediary aspects.  More specifically concerned with language and translation, culture as “the way of life and its manifestations that are peculiar to a community that uses a particular language as its means of expression,” thus acknowledging that each language group has its own culturally specific features, operationally language as a component or feature of culture. in language is part of a culture imply the impossibility to translate, translating the source language (SL) into a suitable form of target language (TL) is part of the translator’s role in transcultural communication.  Today, the world gets increasingly interconnected through globalization.  In this process, confrontation of cultures is an inevitable event which leads to the cross-cultural communication.