Understanding Misunderstanding. Vol.1: Cross-Cultural Translation

This book explores the covert and overt creative potential of misunderstanding. Viewed from the authors- perspective, misunderstanding proves an elementary and unavoidable aspect of linguistic and cultural communication that can have a surprisingly beneficial impact on social relations and concomitantly stimulate the emergence of new cultural forms. As the authors of the book prove, cross-cultural contact is definitely a dynamic and asymmetric process rather than a static and symmetric transfer of values from one culture to another.