On the mechanism of dialogue of cultural contexts from the perspective of intercultural communication

The dialogue mechanism of translation cultural context is a pattern of the translation process in which the source linguistic and cultural context and the target linguistic and cultural context interact through dialogue. This pattern includes the domestication of weak dialogue, the foreignisation of strong dialogue, and the harmonisation of equal dialogue. The three mechanisms of dialogue are related to intercultural sensitivity, cultural adaptation goes through three stages: culture shock, cultural adaptation, and cultural coexistence, which are the basis of domestication, foreignisation, and harmonisation. In the initial stage of intercultural communication, the barriers of cultural differences are encountered, and culture shock occurs. The same happens in the translation process, where the translator usually uses the strategy of domestication to reduce the cultural shock of the reader of the translation. In the middle and late stages of intercultural communication, the communicators gradually adapt to the other culture and begin to form or have already formed a cultural identity with it. Accordingly, in the translation process, the translator often uses the strategy of foreignisation to satisfy the cultural adaptation of the translation reader. Different cultures do not have a hierarchy, valuation, or superiority over each other. They are independent, have their own advantages, complement each other, and coexist harmoniously. In the practice of translation, when faced with the conflict between two cultures, a harmonisation strategy based on the idea of “striving for unity while preserving differences” is used to maintain the independence of one's own culture and cooperate with the other culture to achieve proper joint agreement. The balance between domestication and foreignisation is a state to be achieved in the process of intercultural communication.

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