Intercultural Communication through Translation: The Evaluation of Gerhard Grotjahn Pape’s Strategies in the Translation of Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Sozaboy into German.
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The recent rapid developments in translation theories have raised translation from its previous status of linguistic transcoding and placed it within the wider framework of communication. Translation has become a means of intercultural communication, transporting one culture to another. In order to facilitate this cross-cultural communication, adequate translation strategy is needed in rendering a text from one language into another. Since mediating between cultures requires specific skills, intercultural sensitivity and responsibility. Applying different translation strategies becomes a necessity in order to overcome some translation problems especially when translating between two distinct languages like English and German. This paper evaluates the strategies applied by the translator in translating Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Sozaboy into German. This is in relation to promoting intercultural communication through translation. The paper concludes that acquiring some levels of intercultural competence could enhance the translator’s ability in choosing and applying adequate strategies in translation
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