A (Bio)Semiotic Theory of Translation: The Emergence of Social-Cultural Reality

ISBN-13: 9780367584139 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 208 str.

Kobus Marais

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.