%0 Journal Article
%T Wasser als Raum in Literatur und Kultur: Wasserkonzepte im interkulturellen Vergleich. Water and Space in Literature and Cultures: Water Concepts in an Intercultural Comparison
%A Cornelia Feyrer
%J Kalbotyra
%D 2008
%I Vilnius University
%X The aim of the present article is to provide a certain transparency of concepts of water and space in patterns of thinking and orientation related to these concepts in literature and cultures. Working on examples taken from a literary text, the relevance of water and space in language and culture is des-cribed in this contribution. In this context the focus ¨C seen from the point of view of translation ¨C is placed on the universal relevance and the cultural determination as well as on the individually and supra-individually determined manifestation of water concepts and thinking patterns related to these concepts in cultures, culture comparison and language and culture transfer within the framework of the act of translation.
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