Semiotics and the Problem of Translation : With Special Reference to the Semiotics of Charles S. Peirce / Dinda L. Gorlée.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gorlée, Dinda L., author.

Series:

Approaches to translation studies ; Volume 12.

Approaches to Translation Studies ; Volume 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics and literature.

Translating and interpreting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, The Netherlands : Editions Rodopi B.V., [1994]

Summary:

Here is a radically interdisciplinary account of how Charles S. Peirce's theory of signs can be made to interact meaningfully with translation theory. In the separate chapters of this book on semiotranslation, the author shows that the various phenomena we commonly refer to as translation are different forms of genuine and degenerate semiosis. Also drawing on insights from Ludwig Wittgenstein and Walter Benjamin (and drawing analogies between their work and Peirce's) it is argued that through the kaleidoscopic, evolutionary process of unlimited translation, signs deploy their meaning-potentialities. This enables the author to throw novel light upon Roman Jakobson's three kinds of translation - intralingual, interlingual, and intersemiotic translation. Gorlée's pioneering study will entice translation specialists, semioticians, and (language) philosophers into expanding their views upon translation and, hopefully, into cooperative research projects.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

01. Acknowledgments

02. Introduction

03. Fundamentals of the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce

04. Translation and the semiotics of games and decisions

05. Wittgenstein, translation, and semiotics

06. Peirce and the problem of translation: Soul and body

07. Identity vs. difference: Benjamin and Peirce

08. Translation after Jakobson after Peirce

09. Equivalence, translation, and the role of the translator

10. Quid pro quo: Contractual semiosis and translation

11. Conclusion and recommendations 12. Bibliography

13. Index of names.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789004454750

9004454756

OCLC:

1348481868