Signergy / edited by C. Jac Conradie ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Conradie, C. J.

Series:

Iconicity in language and literature ; 9.

Iconicity in language and literature, 1873-5037 ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iconicity (Linguistics).

Poetics.

Physical Description:

x, 420 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : John Benjamins, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A fundamental issue with reference to the translation process concerns the type of relation between the original and the translated text. Peirce indicates three possibilities: icon, index and symbol. For many scholars it is a given that the relation of similarity between the original text and the translated text predominates and that the iconic relation ordinarily describes the character of translation. However, evidence is provided in this paper to show from a theoretical viewpoint (i.e. from that of translation studies) and a practical viewpoint (with examples provided) that a relationship between source text and target text which is characterised as iconic can only be weakly iconic because a target text can never fully resemble its source text in every respect linguistically and culturally. Furthermore in certain cases an indexical or symbolic relationship rather than an iconic one may even predominate. Since the 1980s, discourses about translation have broadened steadily. An outflow of these developments is a greater understanding of the superordinate categories of translation and the fact that the relation between source and target text is no longer only one of resemblance (i.e. iconicity). An example of iconicity from the Koran and its translation is provided as evidence for a predominant, but weak iconic relationship between source text and target text. Examples from the Sesotho Bible translation and Das neue Testament illustrate that the predominant relationship can also be indexical or symbolic (rather than iconic), respectively.

Contents:

Introduction: signergy / Ronél Johl, Jac Conradie and Marthinus Beukes

Part I. Theoretical approaches. Literary practices and imaginative possibilities: toward a pragmatic understanding of iconicity / Vincent Colapietro

The bell jar, the maze and the mural: diagrammatic figurations as textual performance / Christina Ljungberg

Iconicity as meaning miming meaning and meaning miming form / Lars Elleström

A view from the margins: theoretical contributions to an understanding of iconicity from the Afrikaans-speaking research community / Ronél Johl

Part II. Visual iconicity. Iconic and indexical elements in Italian Futurist poetry: F.T. Marinetti's "words-in-freedom" / John J. White

Taking a line for a walk: poetic contour drawings and contoured poems / Heilna du Plooy

Iconicity and naming in E.E. Cummings's poetry / Etienne Terblanche

Bunyan and the physiognomy of the Wor(l)d / Matthias Bauer

From icon to index and back: a 16th century description of a "sea-bishop" / C. Jac Conradie

The poem as icon of the painting: poetic iconicity in Johannes Vermeer and Tom Gouws / Marthinus Beukes

Part III. Iconicity and historical change. Iconicity and etymology / Anatoly Liberman

Iconicity typological and theological: J.G. Hamann and James Joyce / Strother B. Purdy

An iconic, analogical approach to grammaticalization / Olga Fischer

Part IV. Iconicity and positionality. Iconic signs, motivated semantic networks, and the nature of conceptualization: what iconic signing spaces can tell us about mental spaces / William J. Herlofsky

Iconicity and subjectivisation in the English NP: the case of little / Victorina González-Díaz

Metrical inversion and enjambment in the context of syntactic and morphological structures: towards a poetics of verse / Wolfgang G. Müller

Part V. Iconicity and translation. Translation, iconicity, and dialogism / Susan Petrilli

Iconicity and developments in translation studies / Jacobus A. Naudé.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612558627

9781282558625

1282558625

9789027288417

9027288410

OCLC:

649478957