Conversations About Language & Culture / Howard Burton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burton, Howard, 1965- author.

Series:

Ideas Roadshow conversations.

Ideas Roadshow Conversations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages).

Other Title:

Ideas Roadshow Collections

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Open Agenda Publishing, Inc., 2021.

Summary:

This compendium includes the following 5 complete books featuring renowned researchers David Bellos, Michael Berry, Nick Couldry, Denis McQuail and Carol Padden providing fully accessible insights into cutting-edge academic research while revealing the inspirations and personal journeys behind the research. The books are explicitly designed to provide a unique window into frontline research and scholarship that wouldn't otherwise be experienced through standard lectures and textbooks. A detailed preface highlights the connections between the different books and all five books are broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter: I. Babbling Barbarians: How Translators Keep Us Civilized - A conversation with David Bellos, Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. This conversation examines many features of language, translation and translation studies, including the value of a translation as opposed to the original work, translating humour, the Bergman Effect, and dives into his translations of 19th-century works of French fiction, and the different biographies he has written of Georges Perec and others. II. China, Culturally Speaking - A conversation with Michael Berry, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies, UCLA. Michael Berry is also a world-renowned Chinese literary translator and film scholar. The conversation covers a wide range of topics such as the appeal of literary translation, modern and contemporary Chinese literature, the history and development of Chinese cinema, popular culture in modern China, censorship, and the importance of staying true to one's values. III. The Value of Voice - A conversation with Nick Couldry, Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE. This conversation explores how the media can be used as a filter to examine power structures, political movements, economic interests, democracy and our evolving notion of culture, the importance of voice and the challenge posed by media institutions that order the social, political, cultural, economic, and ethical dimensions of our lives. IV. Perspectives on Mass Communication - A conversation with Denis McQuail (1935-2017), who was Emeritus Professor at the University of Amsterdam and Visiting Professor at the University of Southampton. Denis McQuail is widely considered to be one of the most influential scholars in the history of mass communication studies. This conversation provides insights into how examining the media, and in particular mass media, necessarily involves a careful, probing look at our societal values; the concepts, metrics and ideas that McQuail developed to measure the sociological influence of the media; the critical role of journalism in society and more. V. Sign Language Linguistics - A conversation with Carol Padden, the Sanford I. Berman Chair in Language and Human Communication at UC San Diego. This conversation provides a detailed exploration of Carol Padden's areas of research, starting with her personal experiences of growing up with American Sign Language, deaf culture, her early work with Bill Stokoe, the linguistic complexity, structure and properties of ASL and other sign languages, the role of gesture and embodiment, and the ways in which language forms are created, propagated, and conventionalized in natural environments throughout the world. Howard Burton is the host and editor of all Ideas Roadshow conversations and was the Founding Executive Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and an MA in philosophy. Ideas Roadshow offers a series of 20 Collections, including Conversations About History, Volumes 1-3, Conversations About The History Of Ideas, Conversations About Politics, and Conversations About Religion.

Contents:

Intro

Textual Note

Preface

China, Culturally Speaking

A conversation with Michael Berry

Introduction

I. From New Jersey to Nanjing

II. Found in Translation

III. Freedom of the Press

IV. Contemporary Voices

V. A Glimpse Behind the Lens

VI. Business and Art

VII. Flourishing

Continuing the Conversation

Babbling Barbarians

How Translators Keep Us Civilized

A conversation with David Bellos

I. Introductory Musings

II. An Illustrative Capture

III. Getting the Joke

IV. Probing the Foreign

V. Films in Translation VI. The Varieties of English

VII. Asserting Our Individuality

VIII. Translation and Meaning

IX. Mathematics and Music

X. Language and Thought

XI. Paying Respects

Sign Language Linguistics

A conversation with Carol Padden

I. Choosing Languages

II. Distance Education

III. Signing as Language

IV. Diversity and Structure

V. Distinctiveness

VI. Embodiment

VII. A Cultural Window

VIII. Predictions and Proclivities

IX. Examining Diversity

X. Making Comparisons

Continuing the Conversation Perspectives on Mass Communication

A conversation with Denis McQuail

I. Plunging into the Media

II. Getting Rigorous

III. Journalism and Society

IV. Bringing It Home

V. Towards the Future

The Value of Voice

A conversation with Nick Couldry

I. Round the Houses

II. Deconstruction

III. Investigating Power

IV. The Future of Media

V. Ever Onwards

Continuing the Conversation.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-77170-187-0