Trans lated translation and cultural manipulation inproceedingsfaiq2007translatedta titletrans lated translation and cultural manipulation authorsaid m faiq year2007 said m faiq published 2007 computer science part 1 preface chapter 2 the culture of translation and the translation of culture chapter 3 the master discourse of translation chapter 4 a case of pseudo . Get this from a library trans lated translation and cultural manipulation said faiq translation is intercultural communication par excellence it has the power to form and or deform cultures through sustained manipulation of the translation process and all that goes into it from . It has the power to form and or deform cultures through sustained manipulation of the translation process and all that goes into it from texts chosen for translation to the words used but nowhere has manipulation through translation been more damaging than in the cultural exchange of goods between the arab islamic worlds and the west. He explains that in this translation manipulation 1 culture induced manipulation is only partly avoidable since there are cases when it is unavoidable eg when dealing with dialects or cultural realia or any other similar concept did not seem to account for the translators choices 20031 the claim that translation is manipulation can also be questioned if one adopts the post . Translation is intercultural communication par excellence it has the power to form and or deform cultures through sustained manipulation of the translation process and all that goes into it from texts chosen for translation to the words used but nowhere has manipulation through translation been more damaging than in the cultural exchange of goods between the arab islamic worlds and the west