15.2792, Books: Translation: Gorlée

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Date: 28-Sep-2004
From: Eric van Broekhuizen < E.van.Broekhuizen at rodopi.nl >
Subject: On Translating Signs: Gorlée 

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Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 10:35:44
From: Eric van Broekhuizen < E.van.Broekhuizen at rodopi.nl >
Subject: On Translating Signs: Gorlée 

Title: On Translating Signs 
Subtitle: Exploring Text and Semio-Translation. 
Series Title: Approaches to Translation Studies Vol. 24  

Publication Year: 2004 
Publisher: Rodopi
	   http://www.rodopi.nl/

Author: Dinda L. Gorlée

Paperback: ISBN: 9042016426 Pages: 250 Price: Europe EURO 50.-

Abstract:

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.

Contents:
Foreword 
Bibliography
Text and Interdisciplinary Texture
Semiotranslation and Abductive Translation
Trial and (T)error: Peirce's Fallibilism and Semiotranslation 
Name Index
Subject Index 

Linguistic Field(s): Translation

Written In: English  (Language Code: ENG)

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