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Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

Grundierung (hier)

English translation:

roots/origins

Added to glossary by Ramey Rieger (X)
Jul 26, 2017 10:07
6 yrs ago
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German term

Grundierung (hier)

German to English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
Description of the content of a series of lecture (literature):
Es werden, mit Bezug auf den soziokulturellen Hintergrund und seiner transnationalen und transkulturellen GRUNDIERUNG für diese Epoche repräsentative AutorInnen... vorgestellt.

Does this mean the foundations laid by the socio-cultural background? I'm not sure if I have interpreted this correctly.
Proposed translations (English)
3 +2 roots/origin
4 +1 grounding
4 while transcending national and cultural boundaries.
Change log

Aug 2, 2017 07:10: Ramey Rieger (X) Created KOG entry

Discussion

Helen Shiner Jul 26, 2017:
@Ramey Good plan.
Ramey Rieger (X) Jul 26, 2017:
JEEEEZZZZ More like I need to get OUT for a while. I just drank an espresso, so that can't be the hitch. Muscle mush, derrière doldrums.
Helen Shiner Jul 26, 2017:
@Ramey I always need more coffee ;)
Helen Shiner Jul 26, 2017:
@Ramey If it were dative, it would be "Ihrem Schreiben" surely? Do we need more coffee? =:)
Ramey Rieger (X) Jul 26, 2017:
IN Bezug auf schon, but MIT Bezug auf takes dative, doesn't it? Look here:
mit Bezug auf Ihr Schreiben vom
Helen Shiner Jul 26, 2017:
in Bezug auf takes the accusative. As in auf den Hintergrund just before.
Ramey Rieger (X) Jul 26, 2017:
@Helen could it be, that the 'seiner' is dative, referring to 'mit Bezug auf'? That's how I read it.
Helen Shiner Jul 26, 2017:
Origins But Ramey's origin (though I'd make it plural) is a good solution.
Helen Shiner Jul 26, 2017:
@Lesley A strange shift from mit Bezug auf + acc to a genitive construction without helpful punctuation. But I read it as the foundations or basis OF the socio-cultural background, not laid by. The transnational and transcultural nature of the socio-cultural background/context perhaps?

Proposed translations

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5 mins
Selected

roots/origin

I would think
Peer comment(s):
agree Helen Shiner : If origins./Thanks, Ramey, and you.
13 mins
Yes, plural it should be. Take care of your good self, Helen!
agree writeaway : origins /for conssisstency
2 hrs
Yes./ssssuffering sssuccotash!
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks, Ramey"
2 hrs

while transcending national and cultural boundaries.

IMO, it's possible to declutter this sentence without significant loss of meaning. To get this translated properly, you have to focus on the whole sentence, not its isolated components.

"We will introduce authors who represent this era in sociological and cultural terms while transcending national and cultural boundaries."

Peer comment(s):
neutral writeaway : someone set up boundaries?
1 min
Yep. You guessed it.
neutral Helen Shiner : Nothing here about transcending or boundaries./I am perfectly aware of what they mean. This just doesn't work, Michael.
1 hr
Just look up what transnational und transkulturell means/ Thanks, Helen, but I think this actually works beautifully
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5 hrs
German term (edited): Grundierung

grounding

or possibly: basis

As has already been mentioned, "seiner" would have to refer to "Hintergrund."
Reference:

https://books.google.com/books?id=pXcMvBsrMLgC&pg=PT180&lpg=PT180&dq=%22transcultural+grounding%22&source=bl&ots=KV5lPElFj8&sig=XJvdW5VEZRAv

https://books.google.com/books?id=TrF9f6wO5AsC&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15&dq=%22transnational+grounding%22&source=bl&ots=SaZe35rYaF&sig=le3rhqe6IQFEok

Peer comment(s):
agree Johanna Timm, PhD : http://tinyurl.com/ydcn9qjp
1 day 3 hrs
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