Natural science museums

by | Apr 1, 2020 | YourTerm CULT

As part of the Term Coord new series of projects, your Term CULT features several linguistic resources for users of culture terminology. It comprises three sections addressing different needs of the reality of culture. One of them deals with terminology extracted from...

To which language and culture do I belong?

by | Mar 13, 2020 | YourTerm CULT

Do you speak several languages, and are you familiar with several cultures? Did you even grew up with two or more different languages and cultures? If you did, then you might have asked yourself the following question: To which language and culture do I belong? This...

IATE term of the week: Culture Action Europe

by | Mar 13, 2020 | YourTerm CULT

On 15th April we celebrated the International Day of Art, in honour of the birth of Leonardo da Vinci. If the painter is known worldwide for his famous Mona Lisa, this artist was probably one of the greatest lovers of art and culture of his time. Today, many...

What is the relationship between language and culture?

by | Mar 13, 2020 | YourTerm CULT

Before answering this complex and difficult question, I need to define first these two notions. I will maintain Byram’s (2008) version for culture defined as “shared beliefs, values and behaviors of a social group”, where social group can be a family at a micro level...

How can we translate culture?

by | Mar 13, 2020 | YourTerm CULT

Ivana Kuriačková is a former student of the Master in Learning and Communication in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts from the University of Luxembourg. Her Master’s degree thesis focuses on the translation in five languages of cultural terms particularly...