Linguistics, Literary Analysis, and Literary Translation / Henry Schogt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schogt, Henry, author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philology.

Translating and interpreting.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 177 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In this interdisciplinary study Henry Schogt explores the relations between linguistics, literary analysis, and literary translation. He offers an analysis of both theory and practice of literary translation and literary analysis in the light of contemporary linguistic theories.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. System, norm, usage

3. Literature, norm, usage, and evolution

4. Cost and yield

5. Formal identity and formal opposition: the linguistic sign

6. Field models, universals, and language-bound world-view

7. Arbitrariness, convention, and motivation

8. A stumbling-block in semantics: discreteness and gradual transition

9. Intentionality and relevance

10. Terminological confusion

11. Short of denotation and beyond it

12. What's in a name?

13. Linguistics and literary analysis: a happy alliance?

14. Linguists and literary texts

15. Linguistics and translation

16. Various options

17. Foreign languages and dialects

18. Answerable and unanswerable questions.

Notes:

Reprinted in 2018.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-8340-0

OCLC:

1121055067