Semiotics and Bible translation
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Robert Hodgson
Robert Hodgson (b. 1943). His research interests include translation studies, biblical studies, media translation, and semiotics. His publications in-clude
From One Medium to Another. Basic Issues for Communicating the Scriptures in New Media (ed. with P. Soukup, 1997);Fidelity and Translation. Communicating the Bible in New Media (ed. with P. Soukup, 1999); andSimilarity and Difference in Translation (ed. with S. Arduini, 2004).
Abstract
Bible translation over the past half century has increasingly supplemented its traditional philological-linguistic approach with a wide variety of disciplines ranging from archaeology to cultural studies. This turn toward an interdisciplinary approach is especially true of new media Bible translation with its theory and practice now engaging virtually every digital and screen medium. Not surprisingly, (new media) Bible translation has discovered the field of semiotics, thanks in large measure to the work of translation scholars such as Dinda L. Gorlée and Ubaldo Stecconi, whose pioneering research into Charles Sanders Peirce has unearthed a gold mine of conceptual and even practical applications of semiotics to translation research, training, evaluation, and production. In this essay, we set out some of the foundational elements of Peircean semiotics in its application to Bible translation, including new media Bible translation. In particular, the insights of semiotics into the process of sign production and meaning making will add exponentially to the resources for Bible translators.
About the author
Robert Hodgson (b. 1943). His research interests include translation studies, biblical studies, media translation, and semiotics. His publications in-clude From One Medium to Another. Basic Issues for Communicating the Scriptures in New Media (ed. with P. Soukup, 1997); Fidelity and Translation. Communicating the Bible in New Media (ed. with P. Soukup, 1999); and Similarity and Difference in Translation (ed. with S. Arduini, 2004).
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- Avant-propos : émotion et sémiose
- L'é motion chantée : ‘Eu sei que vou te amar’
- Du mouvement à la quiétude
- Le triangle émotionnel du discours publicitaire
- Thymie et enthyméme
- Ethos, pathos, et persuasion : le corps dans l'argumentation. Le cas du témoignage
- Les motions de l'áme
- La gestion du sens dans l'émotion : du vertige aux formes de vie
- Vital signs of semio-translation
- Semiotics and Bible translation
- Processual boundaries of translation: Semiotics and translation studies
- Broken signs: The architectonic translation of Peirce's fragments
- Hypertextuality and literary translation
- Interpretive trajectories in translation semiotics
- Methodological remarks on the study of translation and translating
Articles in the same Issue
- Avant-propos : émotion et sémiose
- L'é motion chantée : ‘Eu sei que vou te amar’
- Du mouvement à la quiétude
- Le triangle émotionnel du discours publicitaire
- Thymie et enthyméme
- Ethos, pathos, et persuasion : le corps dans l'argumentation. Le cas du témoignage
- Les motions de l'áme
- La gestion du sens dans l'émotion : du vertige aux formes de vie
- Vital signs of semio-translation
- Semiotics and Bible translation
- Processual boundaries of translation: Semiotics and translation studies
- Broken signs: The architectonic translation of Peirce's fragments
- Hypertextuality and literary translation
- Interpretive trajectories in translation semiotics
- Methodological remarks on the study of translation and translating
