Beyond translation
essays toward a modern philology
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Author
Publication
1995 - University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Language
English
Word Count
109,500 words, Guess
Page Count
438 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1120619M
- ISBN-100472105736
- OCLC Control Number31866854
- OCLC Control Numberbeyondtranslatio0000beck
- Library of Congress Control Number94047089
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- Goodreads3298598
- LibraryThing1908094
Classifications
- DDC418/.02
- LCCP306.2 .B4 1995
Description
In this collection of essays A. L. Becker develops a bold, new approach to translation that addresses the subtleties of cultural identity. Becker describes how texts in Burmese, Javanese, and Malay differ profoundly from English texts in all the ways they have meaning: in the games they play, the worlds they constitute, the memories they evoke, the media they shape, the structures they build, and the silences they maintain. In each of these dimensions there are excesses and inadequacies of meaning that make a difference across languages. Becker's "modern philology" insists, beyond translation, on the sorting out of these ambiguities and contexts of meaning. . In linguistics, the essays emphasize important kinds of nonuniversality in all aspects of language and look toward a new theory of language grounded in American pragmatism. In anthropology, the essays demonstrate that much of culture can be described in terms of text-building strategies. And for the comparatist, whether in literature, history, rhetoric, music, or psychology, the essays provide a new array of tools of comparison across distant languages and cultures.
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