Hypertextuality and literary translation
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Augusto Ponzio
Augusto Ponzio (b. 1942). His principal research interests include philosophy of language, general linguistics, semiotics, and theory of literature. His recent major publications include
L'io semiotico (with Thomas A. Sebeok and Susan Petrilli, 2001);Semioetica (2003);Views in Literary Semiotics (2003); andSemiotics Unbounded: Interpretive Routes in the Open Network of Signs (with Susan Petrilli, 2005).
Abstract
In this paper, our focus is on the hypertext as the reading-text in a strong sense; that is, as privileging the reader. The hypothesis we intend to verify is whether or not the hypertext may become a method for translation. Taking the hypertext as our starting point, we shall delineate a methodics with important implications for translative practice. Destination of the text and, therefore, its intention of being translated concerns the text's relation to language understood as a modeling device, as the ‘play of musement’ (Peirce), therefore capable of producing an ‘infinite number of possible worlds’ (Leibniz). Translatability concerns the relation between text and language. The more a text has crossed a historical-natural language in the direction of what Benjamin calls ‘pure language’ (this is the crossing over which makes for a literary text), not only the more is it translatable, but the more it calls for translation.
About the author
Augusto Ponzio (b. 1942). His principal research interests include philosophy of language, general linguistics, semiotics, and theory of literature. His recent major publications include L'io semiotico (with Thomas A. Sebeok and Susan Petrilli, 2001); Semioetica (2003); Views in Literary Semiotics (2003); and Semiotics Unbounded: Interpretive Routes in the Open Network of Signs (with Susan Petrilli, 2005).
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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
