LINGUIST List 22.3124

Fri Aug 05 2011

Books: Translation/Philosophy of Language/Semantics: Meschonnic

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        1.     Paul Peranteau , Ethics and Politics of Translating: Meschonnic

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Message 1: Ethics and Politics of Translating: Meschonnic
Date: 02-Aug-2011
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: Ethics and Politics of Translating: Meschonnic
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Title: Ethics and Politics of Translating Series Title: Benjamins Translation Library 91 Published: 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 languageand how to do it. In a radical stand against a hermeneutical approach basedon the dualistic view of the linguistic sign and against its separation into ameaningful signified and a meaningless signifier, Henri Meschonnic arguesfor a poetics of translating. Because texts generate meaning through theirpower of expression, to translate ethically involves listening to the variousrhythms that characterize them: prosodic, consonantal or vocalic patterns,syntactical structures, sentence length and punctuation, among otherdiscursive means. However, as the book illustrates, such an endeavour goesagainst the grain and, more precisely, against a 2500-year-old tradition in thecase of biblical translation. The inability of translators to give ear to rhythm inlanguage results from a culturally transmitted deafness. Henri Meschonnicdecries the generalized unwillingness to remedy this cultural condition anddiscusses the political implications for the subject of discourse.

Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language                             Semantics                             Translation
Written In: English (eng )

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