Semiotics and the Problem of Translation: With Special Reference to the Semiotics of Charles S. Peirce (Approaches to Translation Studies)

Here is a radically interdisciplinary account of how Charles S. Peirce's theory of signs can be made to interact meaningfully with translation theory. In the separate chapters of this book on semiotranslation, the author shows that the various phenomena we commonly refer to as translation are different forms of genuine and degenerate semiosis. Also drawing on insights from Ludwig Wittgenstein and Walter Benjamin (and drawing analogies between their work and Peirce's) it is argued that through the kaleidoscopic, evolutionary process of unlimited translation, signs deploy their meaning-potentialities. This enables the author to throw novel light upon Roman Jakobson's three kinds of translation - intralingual, interlingual, and intersemiotic translation. Gorlée's pioneering study will entice translation specialists, semioticians, and (language) philosophers into expanding their views upon translation and, hopefully, into cooperative research projects. Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents 01. Acknowledgments 02. Introduction 03. Fundamentals of the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce 04. Translation and the semiotics of games and decisions 05. Wittgenstein, translation, and semiotics 06. Peirce and the problem of translation: Soul and body 07. Identity vs. difference: Benjamin and Peirce 08. Translation after Jakobson after Peirce 09. Equivalence, translation, and the role of the translator 10. Quid pro quo: Contractual semiosis and translation 11. Conclusion and recommendations 12. Bibliography 13. Index of names