Understanding the language, the culture, and the experience: Translation in cross-cultural research.

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Lai, D. W.
  • Mill, J.
  • Kushner, K. E.
  • Choi, J.

• Achieving conceptual equivalence between two languages is a challenge in cross-cultural, cross-language research, as the research is conducted in a language that is not the researcher’s or research team’s first language. Therefore, translation provides an additional challenge in cross-cultural research. The comprehension and interpretation of the meaning of data is central in cross-cultural qualitative analysis. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the translation process and explore some of the challenges, such as difficulties in finding a suitable translator, and the importance of communication between the researcher and the translator.

• Date created

  2012

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Research
  • Translations
  • Cross-culture research
  • Cross-language research
  • Qualitative methods

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3154DR26

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International