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Author : James S.. Holmes
Release : 2011-12-07
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis The nature of translation by : James S.. Holmes
Download or read book The nature of translation written by James S.. Holmes. This book was released on 2011-12-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert McQueen Grant
Release : 1963
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis A Historical Introduction to the New Testament by : Robert McQueen Grant
Download or read book A Historical Introduction to the New Testament written by Robert McQueen Grant. This book was released on 1963. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Benjamin
Release : 2014-04-08
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Translation and the Nature of Philosophy (Routledge Revivals) by : Andrew Benjamin
Download or read book Translation and the Nature of Philosophy (Routledge Revivals) written by Andrew Benjamin. This book was released on 2014-04-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engrossing study, first published in 1989, explores the basic mutuality between philosophy and translation. By studying the conceptions of translation in Plato, Seneca, Davidson, Walter Benjamin and Freud, Andrew Benjamin reveals the interplay between the two disciplines not only in their relationship to language, but also at a deeper, cognitive level. Benjamin engages throughout with the central tenets of post-structuralism: the concept of a constant yet illusive ‘true’ meaning has lost authority, but remains a problem. The fact of translation seems to defy the notion that ‘meaning’ is reducible to its component words; yet, to say that the ‘truth’ is more than the sum of its parts, we are challenging the very foundations of what it is to communicate, to understand, and to know. In Translation and the Nature of Philosophy, the author sets out his own theory of language in light of these issues.
Author : Shiho Satsuka
Release : 2015-08-13
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Nature in Translation by : Shiho Satsuka
Download or read book Nature in Translation written by Shiho Satsuka. This book was released on 2015-08-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature in Translation is an ethnographic exploration in the cultural politics of the translation of knowledge about nature. Shiho Satsuka follows the Japanese tour guides who lead hikes, nature walks, and sightseeing bus tours for Japanese tourists in Canada's Banff National Park and illustrates how they aspired to become local "nature interpreters" by learning the ecological knowledge authorized by the National Park. The guides assumed the universal appeal of Canada’s magnificent nature, but their struggle in translating nature reveals that our understanding of nature—including scientific knowledge—is always shaped by the specific socio-cultural concerns of the particular historical context. These include the changing meanings of work in a neoliberal economy, as well as culturally-specific dreams of finding freedom and self-actualization in Canada's vast nature. Drawing on nearly two years of fieldwork in Banff and a decade of conversations with the guides, Satsuka argues that knowing nature is an unending process of cultural translation, full of tensions, contradictions, and frictions. Ultimately, the translation of nature concerns what counts as human, what kind of society is envisioned, and who is included and excluded in the society as a legitimate subject.
Author : Alan K. Melby
Release : 1995
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis The Possibility of Language by : Alan K. Melby
Download or read book The Possibility of Language written by Alan K. Melby. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the limits of machine translation. It is widely recognized that machine translation systems do much better on domain-specific controlled-language texts (domain texts for short) than on dynamic general-language texts (general texts for short). The authors explore this general domain distinction and come to some uncommon conclusions about the nature of language. Domain language is claimed to be made possible by general language, while general language is claimed to be made possible by the ethical dimensions of relationships. Domain language is unharmed by the constraints of objectivism, while general language is suffocated by those constraints. Along the way to these conclusions, visits are made to Descartes and Saussure, to Chomsky and Lakoff, to Wittgenstein and Levinas. From these conclusions, consequences are drawn for machine translation and translator tools, for linguistic theory and translation theory. The title of the book does not question whether language is possible; it asks, with wonder and awe, why communication through language is possible.
