On Translating Signs

Author : Dinda L. Gorlée
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9042016426

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On Translating Signs by Dinda L. Gorlée Pdf

Translation produces meaningful versions of textual information. But what is a text? What is translation? What is meaning? And what is a translational version? This book On Translating Signs: Exploring Text and Semio-Translation responds to those and other eternal translation-theoretical questions from a semiotic point of view. Dinda L. Gorlée notes that in this world of interpretation and translation, surrounded by our semio-translational universe "perfused with signs," we can intuit whether or not an object in front of us (dis)qualifies as a text. This spontaneous understanding requires no formalized definition in order to "happen" in the receivers of text-signs. The author further observes that translated signs are not only intelligible for target audiences, but also work together as a "theatre of consciousness" or a "theatre of controversy" which the author views as powered by Charles S. Peirce's three categories of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness. This book presents the virtual community of translators as emotional, dynamical, intellectual but not infallible semioticians. They translate text-signs from one language and culture into another, thus creating an innovative sign-milieu packed with intuitive, dynamic, and changeable signs. Translators produce fleeting and fallible text-translations, with obvious errors caused by ignorance or misguided knowledge. Text-signs are translatable, yet there is no such thing as a perfect or "final" translation. And without the ongoing creating of translated signs of all kinds, there would be no novelty, no vagueness, no manipulation of texts and - for that matter - no semiosis.

Author : Eugene Albert Nida
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Communication
ISBN : OCLC:702685291

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Signs, Sense, Translation by Eugene Albert Nida Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004490093

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Translation Translation by Anonim Pdf

Translation Translation contributes to current debate on the question of translation dealt with in an interdisciplinary perspective, with implications not only of a theoretical order but also of the didactic and the practical orders. In the context of globalization the question of translation is fundamental for education and responds to new community needs with reference to Europe and more extensively to the international world. In its most obvious sense translation concerns verbal texts and their relations among different languages. However, to remain within the sphere of verbal signs, languages consist of a plurality of different languages that also relate to each other through translation processes. Moreover, translation occurs between verbal languages and nonverbal languages and among nonverbal languages without necessarily involving verbal languages. Thus far the allusion is to translation processes within the sphere of anthroposemiosis. But translation occurs among signs and the signs implicated are those of the semiosic sphere in its totality, which are not exclusively signs of the linguistic-verbal order. Beyond anthroposemiosis, translation is a fact of life and invests the entire biosphere or biosemiosphere, as clearly evidenced by research in “biosemiotics”, for where there is life there are signs, and where there are signs or semiosic processes there is translation, indeed semiosic processes are translation processes. According to this approach reflection on translation obviously cannot be restricted to the domain of linguistics but must necessarily involve semiotics, the general science or theory of signs. In this theoretical framework essays have been included not only from major translation experts, but also from researchers working in different areas, in addition to semiotics and linguistics, also philosophy, literary criticism, cultural studies, gender studies, biology, and the medical sciences. All scholars work on problems of translation in the light of their own special competencies and interests.

Author : Christopher Stone,Robert Adam,Ronice Müller de Quadros,Christian Rathmann
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000598339

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The Routledge Handbook of Sign Language Translation and Interpreting by Christopher Stone,Robert Adam,Ronice Müller de Quadros,Christian Rathmann Pdf

This Handbook provides the first comprehensive overview of sign language translation and interpretation from around the globe and looks ahead to future directions of research. Divided into eight parts, the book covers foundational skills, the working context of both the sign language translator and interpreter, their education, the sociological context, work settings, diverse service users, and a regional review of developments. The chapters are authored by a range of contributors, both deaf and hearing, from the Global North and South, diverse in ethnicity, language background, and academic discipline. Topics include the history of the profession, the provision of translation and interpreting in different domains and to different populations, the politics of provision, and the state of play of sign language translation and interpreting professions across the globe. Edited and authored by established and new voices in the field, this is the essential guide for advanced students and researchers of translation and interpretation studies and sign language.

Author : Dinda L. Gorlée
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004454750

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Semiotics and the Problem of Translation by Dinda L. Gorlée Pdf

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.

Author : Gillian Lathey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317621317

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Translating Children's Literature by Gillian Lathey Pdf

Translating Children’s Literature is an exploration of the many developmental and linguistic issues related to writing and translating for children, an audience that spans a period of enormous intellectual progress and affective change from birth to adolescence. Lathey looks at a broad range of children’s literature, from prose fiction to poetry and picture books. Each of the seven chapters addresses a different aspect of translation for children, covering: · Narrative style and the challenges of translating the child’s voice; · The translation of cultural markers for young readers; · Translation of the modern picture book; · Dialogue, dialect and street language in modern children’s literature; · Read-aloud qualities, wordplay, onomatopoeia and the translation of children’s poetry; · Retranslation, retelling and reworking; · The role of translation for children within the global publishing and translation industries. This is the first practical guide to address all aspects of translating children’s literature, featuring extracts from commentaries and interviews with published translators of children’s literature, as well as examples and case studies across a range of languages and texts. Each chapter includes a set of questions and exercises for students. Translating Children’s Literature is essential reading for professional translators, researchers and students on courses in translation studies or children’s literature.

Author : Madeleine Campbell,Ricarda Vidal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319972442

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Translating across Sensory and Linguistic Borders by Madeleine Campbell,Ricarda Vidal Pdf

This book analyses intersemiotic translation, where the translator works across sign systems and cultural boundaries. Challenging Roman Jakobson’s seminal definitions, it examines how a poem may be expressed as dance, a short story as an olfactory experience, or a film as a painting. This emergent process opens up a myriad of synaesthetic possibilities for both translator and target audience to experience form and sense beyond the limitations of words. The editors draw together theoretical and creative contributions from translators, artists, performers, academics and curators who have explored intersemiotic translation in their practice. The contributions offer a practitioner’s perspective on this rapidly evolving, interdisciplinary field which spans semiotics, cognitive poetics, psychoanalysis and transformative learning theory. The book underlines the intermedial and multimodal nature of perception and expression, where semiotic boundaries are considered fluid and heuristic rather than ontological. It will be of particular interest to practitioners, scholars and students of modern foreign languages, linguistics, literary and cultural studies, interdisciplinary humanities, visual arts, theatre and the performing arts.

Author : Ioannes Lydus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Omens
ISBN : 077341794X

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On Celestial Signs (de Ostentis) by Ioannes Lydus Pdf

The objective of this edition is textual and translational in nature. Since the works of Lydus are replete with Latin vocabulary, this book serves to bring it into English. The translation is faithful to the original and accurate so as to express LydusOCO intended thoughts. His repetitious use of certain linguistic expressions, although sometimes awkward to render to English, have been retained in order to capture his peculiar linguistic and seemingly crabbed style. The book tries to put his words into working English for the first time, and the translators were meticulous in trying to do a tight word for word translation based on the text, free from interpretation."

Author : Patrizia Calefato
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785272448

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Fashion as Cultural Translation by Patrizia Calefato Pdf

The book highlights how the signs of fashion showcase stories, hybridations, forms of feeling, from the classics of fashion in cinema, to fashion as cultural tradition in the global world, to digital media. Based on a strong socio-semiotic method (Barthes, The Language of Fashion is the main reference), the book crosses some of the main aspects of the contemporary culture of the clothed body: from time and space, to gender, to fashion as cultural translation, to the narratives included in the media convergence of our age. According to Jurji Lotman, fashion introduces the dynamic principle into seemingly inert spheres of the everyday. Fashion’s unexpected function of overturning received meaning is conveyed through its collocation within the dynamic storehouse of what Lotman calls the “sphere of the unpredictable.” In this horizon, the concept of fashion as a worldly system of sense (Benjamin) generates different “worlds” through its signs.

Author : (Hugs) Gengshen Hu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789811522604

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Eco-Translatology by (Hugs) Gengshen Hu Pdf

This book offers a panoramic view of the emerging eco-paradigm of Translation Studies, known as Eco-Translatology, and presents a systematic study of the theoretical discourse from ecological perspectives in the field of Translation Studies. Eco-Translatology describes and interprets translation activities in terms of the ecological principles of Eco-holism, traditional Eastern eco-wisdom, and ‘Translation as Adaptation and Selection’. Further, Eco-Translatology approaches the phenomenon of translation as a broadly conceived eco-system in which the ideas of ‘Translation as Adaptation and Selection’, as well as translation as a ‘textual transplant’ promoting an ‘eco-balance’, are integrated into an all-encompassing vision. Lastly, Eco-Translatology reinforces contextual uniqueness, emphasizing the deep embeddedness of texts, translations, and the human agents involved in their production and reception in their own habitus. It is particularly encouraging, in this increasingly globalised world, to see a new paradigm sourced from East Asian traditions but with universal appeal and applications, and which adds to the diversity and plurality of global Translation Studies. This book, the first of its kind, will substantially expand the horizons of Translation Studies, a field that is still trying to define its own borders, and will open a wealth of new possibilities. Destined to become a milestone in the field of Translation, Interpretation and Adaptation Studies, as well as eco-criticism, it will introduce readers to a wholly new epistemological intervention in Translation Studies and therefore will open new vistas of thoughts, discussion and criticism.

Author : Illinois. Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Public welfare
ISBN : UIUC:30112050770392

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Biennial Report of the Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities of the State of Illinois by Illinois. Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities Pdf

Author : Ritva Hartama-Heinonen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Translating and interpreting
ISBN : 952543124X

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Abductive Translation Studies by Ritva Hartama-Heinonen Pdf

Author : New-York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Deaf
ISBN : HARVARD:32044029961562

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Annual Report and Documents of the New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb by New-York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb Pdf

Vol. 26- includes the report on the schools for the deaf and dumb in central and western Europe by Rev. George E. Day.

Author : Aba-Carina Pârlog
Publisher : Springer
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030167660

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Intersemiotic Translation by Aba-Carina Pârlog Pdf

This book explores the practical aspects of intersemiotic translation, examining how different signs and sign sets can be transposed into different kinds of semiotic forms of reference. Drawing on theories from translation studies, semiotics, philosophy and stylistics, the author seeks to understand what happens when texts are translated from one genre or modality to another, and makes use of examples ranging from written texts to advertising, images, music, painting, photography, and sculpture. She also analyses related topics such as the differences between Romance and Germanic languages, the difficulties that arise when attempts are made to translate figures of speech or elements of authorial style, and how this interdisciplinary field relates to traditional language-based translation. This book will be of interest to students, teachers, translators and researchers working in the fields of translation studies and multimodality in particular.

Author : Sylvia Molloy
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822314207

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Signs of Borges by Sylvia Molloy Pdf

Publisher description -- Borges's sustained practice of the uncanny gives rise in his texts to endless tensions between illusion and meaning, and to the competing desires for fragmentation, dispersal, and stability. Molloy traces the movement of Borges's own writing by repeatedly spanning the boundaries of genre and cutting across the conventional separations of narrative, lyric and essay, fact and fiction. Rather than seeking to resolve the tensions and conflicts, she preserves and develops them, thereby maintaining the potential of these texts to disturb. At the site of these tensions, Molloy locates the play between meaning and meaningless that occurs in Borges's texts. From this vantage point his strategies of deception, recourse to simulacra, inquisitorial urge to unsettle binarism, and distrust of the permanent--all that makes Borges Borges--are examined with unmatched skill and acuity.