Understanding the Language, the Culture, and the Experience: Translation in Cross-Cultural Research

• DOI: 10.1177/160940691201100508
• Publication Date: 2017-07-20T12:57:50Z
• Authors: Jaeyoung Choi; Kaysi Eastlick Ku...; Judy Mill; Daniel W. L. Lai
• Keywords: Social sciences (General); H1-99; 03 medical and health sciences; 4. Education; 0305 other medical science

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