<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The article is focused on Tatar ethnic group. It tries to show on its example, how one can be open on other cultures without losing one’s identity and how to persevere in a different cultural environment. It refers to Tatars’ religious writings as the source helpful in maintaining cultural identity. An example of connection between Tatar translations and European tradition of translation, is used to characterize both permeation of cultures and features which served to build cultural separateness of Tatars living in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.</p></abstract>

The article is focused on Tatar ethnic group. It tries to show on its example, how one can be open on other cultures without losing one’s identity and how to persevere in a different cultural environment. It refers to Tatars’ religious writings as the source helpful in maintaining cultural identity. An example of connection between Tatar translations and European tradition of translation, is used to characterize both permeation of cultures and features which served to build cultural separateness of Tatars living in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Culture as a distinctive feature of an ethnic group (based on the example of translated handwritten literature of Polish-Lithuanian Tatar)

University of Mikołaj Kopernik in Toruń, Poland

Journal of Language and Cultural Education

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The article is focused on Tatar ethnic group. It tries to show on its example, how one can be open on other cultures without losing one’s identity and how to...

Culture as a distinctive feature of an ethnic group (based on the example of translated handwritten literature of Polish-Lithuanian Tatar)

Publicado en línea: 14 jul 2016

Páginas: 138 - 152

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jolace-2016-0021

Palabras clave
diachronic linguistics, cultural heritage, research of texts, translation and interpretation, Kitab studies, Koran, Tatar ethnic group

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Culture as a distinctive feature of an ethnic group (based on the example of translated handwritten literature of Polish-Lithuanian Tatar)

Publicado en línea: 14 jul 2016

Páginas: 138 - 152

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jolace-2016-0021

Palabras clavediachronic linguistics, cultural heritage, research of texts, translation and interpretation, Kitab studies, Koran, Tatar ethnic group

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Palabras clave
diachronic linguistics, cultural heritage, research of texts, translation and interpretation, Kitab studies, Koran, Tatar ethnic group