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Watch Your Tongue: Issues in Translation and Cross-Cultural Research

Considering the large amount of research being undertaken in Eastern Europe and elsewhere involving the use of more than one language, there has been a remarkable silence in sociological debate about the status of this research. In this article I argue that such issues should be of concern to social scientists generally as well as to linguists. Using my own research with British-Polish communities, I raise some concerns surrounding the translation of concepts. I suggest one way of beginning to address these problematics: an opening of discussion on an analytical level with those who are often seen as mere technicians, translators and interpreters.

Key Words: auto/biography • British-Polish • cross-cultural research • language • methodology • translation

Sociology, Vol. 31, No. 3, 607-618 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/0038038597031003016


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