A Critical Review of the Book Language, Mind and Culture: A Practical Introduction

Tabatabai, Saleh; Golfam, Arsalan

doi:10.30465/crtls.2021.35625.2196

A Critical Review of the Book Language, Mind and Culture: A Practical Introduction

Document Type : Research

Authors

Saleh Tabatabai ¹

Arsalan Golfam ²

¹ PhD Student of Cognitive Science, Cognitive Linguistics, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

² Associate Professor of Linguistics, Linguistics Department, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.30465/crtls.2021.35625.2196

Abstract

Because of its clear presentation of topics, comprehensive scope and its illustrative application of theories, Language, Mind and Culture: A Practical Introduction by Zoltán Kövecses has secured its place as a textbook of Cognitive Linguistics. That is why the book has been translated into Persian. However, its erroneous Persian translation has not managed to preserve the original book’s merits and has sometimes misinformed or even misled the reader. Most of the problems with the Persian translation constitute formal defects, including conspicuous misspellings and wrong equivalents for proper nouns, and content mistakes, including wrong renderings of general and technical terms and incorrect translations that produced vague or even unintelligible sentences. After giving a broad outline of the original and its contents, the present review has enumerated the various types of the defects in its Persian translation with numerous examples in order to illustrate and correct some of its critical flaws and also to put forward a proposal for the total revision of the translation.

Keywords

Cognitive Linguistics

Zoltán Kövecses

Language

Mind

Culture

Subjects

Linguistics and Ancient Languages

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