Ethics and politics of translating / Henri Meschonnic ; translated and edited by Pier-Pascale Boulanger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meschonnic, Henri, 1932-2009.

Contributor:

Boulanger, Pier-Pascale.

Series:

Benjamins translation library ; v. 91.

Benjamins translation library. EST subseries ; v. 7.

Benjamins translation library, 0929-7316 ; v. 91

Benjamins translation library. EST subseries ; v. 7

Standardized Title:

Éthique et politique du traduire. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What if meaning were the last thing that mattered in language? In this essay, Henri Meschonnic explains what it means to translate the sense of language and how to do it. In a radical stand against a hermeneutical approach based on the dualistic view of the linguistic sign and against its separation into a meaningful signified and a meaningless signifier, Henri Meschonnic argues for a poetics of translating. Because texts generate meaning through their power of expression, to translate ethically involves listening to the various rhythms that characterize them: prosodic, consonantal or vocalic patterns, syntactical structures, sentence length and punctuation, among other discursive means. However, as the book illustrates, such an endeavour goes against the grain and, more precisely, against a 2500-year-old tradition in the case of biblical translation. The inability of translators to give ear to rhythm in language results from a culturally transmitted deafness. Henri Meschonnic decries the generalized unwillingness to remedy this cultural condition and discusses the political implications for the subject of discourse.

Contents:

Ethics and Politics of Translating

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Preface. A life in translation

Introduction

I. An ethics of translating

II. A code of conduct will not suffice

III. Urgently needed: An ethics of language, an ethics of translating

IV. What is at stake in translating is the need to transform the whole theory of language

V. The sense of language, not the meaning of words

VI. Translating: Writing or unwriting

VII. Faithful, unfaithful, just more of the same, I thank thee O sign

VIII. Sourcerer, targeteer, the same thing

IX. Religious texts in translation, God or Allah

X. Why I am retranslating the Bible

XI. Rhythm-translating, voicing, staging

XII. Embiblicizing the voice

XIII. Restoring the poems inherent within the psalms

XIV. Why a Bible blow to philosophy

XV. Grammar, East of Eden

XVI. The Europe of translating

References

Glossary

Index of subjects

Index of names.

Notes:

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613174895

9781283174893

1283174898

9789027286857

902728685X

OCLC:

746851601