26.3085, Books: The Dao of Translation: Robinson

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Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 11:20:57
From: Lisa Farkas [Lisa.Farkas at taylorandfrancis.com]
Subject: The Dao of Translation: Robinson

 


Title: The Dao of Translation 
Subtitle: An East-West Dialogue 
Series Title: Routledge Advances in Translation Studies  

Publication Year: 2015 
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
	   http://www.routledge.com/
	

Book URL: http://bit.ly/1GD2lGb 


Author: Douglas Robinson

Hardback: ISBN:  9781138846562 Pages: 242 Price: U.K. £ 95.00


Abstract:

The Dao of Translation sets up an East-West dialogue on the nature of language
and translation, and specifically on the "unknown forces" that shape the act
of translation. To that end it mobilizes two radically different readings of
the Daodejing (formerly romanized as the Tao Te Ching): the traditional
"mystical" reading according to which the Dao is a mysterious force that
cannot be known, and a more recent reading put forward by Sinologists Roger T.
Ames and David L. Hall, to the effect that the Dao is simply the way things
happen. Key to Ames and Hall’s reading is that what makes the Dao seem both
powerful and mysterious is that it channels habit into action—or what the
author calls social ecologies, or icoses. The author puts Daoism (and ancient
Confucianism) into dialogue with nineteenth-century Western theorists of the
sign, Charles Sanders Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure (and their followers),
in order to develop an "icotic" understanding of the tensions between habit
and surprise in the activity of translating.
 



Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Translation


Written In: English  (eng)

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