1. There is a discussion topic on "whether a non-european writer/text has to be westernized to be appreciated" by a western institute. 2. If you believe in the postive fuctions of awarding, you need to believe as well as give yourself in to their laws and ideology of giving awards, like a man has to give up anarchy if he (chooses to) live(s) in a nation. Otherwise, it is self-contradictory. 3. As to translation, according to Saussure's theory of language, no languages can be translated to another. One other point to make is that, Saussure's linguistic theory is not for any applied languges in the world. 4...