(Bio)semiotic Theory of Translation - The Emergence of Social-Cultural Reality

List of contents

Chapter 1. Translation Problematized
Chapter 2. Conceptualizing Translation in Translation Studies
Chapter 3. Conceptualizing Translation in Semiotics
Chapter 4. Translation: The Process Underlying Semiosis
Chapter 5. Conceptualizing a Semiotic Theory of Translation
Chapter 6. Translating Socio-Cultural Emergence
Chapter 7. Musing About the Future of Reality in the Humanities

About the author

Kobus Marais is interested in understanding the emergence of society and culture from a material substrate. He specializes in semiotics with a focus on complexity thinking and the relationship between translation and development. His publications include Translation theory and development studies: A complexity theory approach and, co-edited with Ilse Feinauer, Translation studies beyond the postcolony.

Summary

This volume outlines a theory of translation, set within the framework of Peircean semiotics, which does not place language at its center, but instead accounts for all instances of translation.

Product details

• Authors: Kobus Marais, Kobus (University of the Free State Marais, Marais Kobus
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781138307377
• ISBN: 978-1-138-30737-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies; Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Media Studies, Philosophy of Language, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Translation & interpretation, Translation and interpretation