Abstract

More than just translation: challenges and opportunities in intercultural and multilingual research

Highlights

  • Drawing on our respective experiences as intercultural researchers operating in specific bilingual settings, we address some issues that we consider to be relevant for further debate

  • We further suggest that a key consideration for researchers negotiating 25 different intercultural research settings and multilingual contexts should be communication

  • Language is a crucial aspect of almost all social science research, but one that may only be considered in depth when it is found to be problematic, as suggested by recent 5 debates on the “Anglo-American hegemony” in human geography, and the perceived reluctance of the Anglophone research world to address this issue

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Introduction

25 Aspects of intercultural and multilingual research are receiving increasing attention from the academic community in human geography and the wider social sciences. A further related current of academic thought focuses on the transferral of meaning within the specific act of translation in intercultural and multilingual contexts.

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