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Chapter 3 - Translation and Interpretation

from Part I - Positions and Propositions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2023

Clive Scott
Clive Scott
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University of East Anglia
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This chapter is based on the proposition that translation is about the extension of one language by another, not about the provision of a replacement text; translation is not about interpretation but about inhabitation. The chapter critically reviews different perspectives on interpretation, particularly those supplied by the diachronic and synchronic, by universality and totality, by the signifier and the signified. Our meanings are always just beyond us, in intentions to mean. The chapter goes on to consider the status of je/I in speech and the nature of linguistic performance. It ends with a short reflection on translation’s perturbational effects on language.

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interpretationdiachronic/synchronicuniversality/totalityperformancedeixisthe vocativehistoricity
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The Philosophy of Literary Translation
Dialogue, Movement, Ecology
 , pp. 44 - 68
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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