22.3124, Books: Translation/Philosophy of Language/Semantics: Meschonnic

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From: Paul Peranteau [paul at benjamins.com]
Subject: Ethics and Politics of Translating: Meschonnic
 

	
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Title: Ethics and Politics of Translating 
Series Title: Benjamins Translation Library 91  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/btl.91 


Author: Henri Meschonnic

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027286857 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 90.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027286857 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027224392 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 90.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027224392 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027224392 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 95.40


Abstract:

What if meaning were the last thing that mattered in language? In this essay, 
Henri Meschonnic explains what it means to translate the sense of language 
and how to do it. In a radical stand against a hermeneutical approach based 
on the dualistic view of the linguistic sign and against its separation into a 
meaningful signified and a meaningless signifier, Henri Meschonnic argues 
for a poetics of translating. Because texts generate meaning through their 
power of expression, to translate ethically involves listening to the various 
rhythms that characterize them: prosodic, consonantal or vocalic patterns, 
syntactical structures, sentence length and punctuation, among other 
discursive means. However, as the book illustrates, such an endeavour goes 
against the grain and, more precisely, against a 2500-year-old tradition in the 
case of biblical translation. The inability of translators to give ear to rhythm in 
language results from a culturally transmitted deafness. Henri Meschonnic 
decries the generalized unwillingness to remedy this cultural condition and 
discusses the political implications for the subject of discourse. 



Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language
                     Semantics
                     Translation


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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