Translating the world : science and language / Sundar Sarukkai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sarukkai, Sundar.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Language.

Science.

Science--Translating.

Technical writing.

Physical Description:

xxi, 165 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : University Press of America, [2002]

Contents:

Part 1 Writing Theories

1 Writing Science 3

1.1 Form and Scientific Discourse 8

1.2 Written Form and Similarity 11

1.3 Language and Ontology 16

1.4 Simulacrum and Writing as Image 19

2 The Writing of Mathematics 23

2.1 Calculation as Writing 26

2.2 Alphabetization in Mathematics 35

3 The Text of Science 40

3.1 Text of the World 40

3.2 Scientific Textuality 42

Part 2 Making Meaning

1 Theories and Meaning 51

1.1 Meaning in Scientific Texts 52

1.2 Multisemiotic Character of the Scientific Text 56

1.3 Figures and Diagrams 60

1.4 Geometrization of Figures 63

1.5 Geometry to Algebra 66

1.6 Translatability of Theories 71

1.7 Metaphors in Science and Mathematics 77

2 Hermeneutics and Scientific Discourse 88

2.1 Topology of the Hermeneutic Circle 95

2.2 Hermeneutics of Mathematics 98

2.2.1 Making Meaning of Operators 99

2.2.2 = as the Transcendental Signified 104

3 Making Meaning of the World 109

3.1 Original/Real 109

3.2 Anoriginal and Mimesis 111

3.3 Approximation 114

Part 3 Science, Language and Translation

1 Literature, Translation and Science 120

2 Philosophy, Translation and Science 130

3 Mathematics, Language and Translation 137.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-161) and index.

ISBN:

0761822720

OCLC:

49312424