Henri Meschonnic: linguist, poet, translator, philosopher . Groups texts into 6 thematic parts; each part is foregrounded by an introduction to situate and contextualize it for the reader . Includes ...an introduction to Henry Meschonnic by John Joseph . Includes an introduction to Meschonnic’s theory, concepts and poetics of society by Marko Pajevic . Includes a glossary of terms, index of names and index of terminology to aid navigation and understanding. Henri Meschonnic was a linguist, poet, translator of the Bible and one of the most original French thinkers of his generation. He strove throughout his career to reform the understanding of language and all that depends on it. His work has had a shaping influence on a generation of scholars and here, for the first time, a selection of these are made available in English for a new generation of linguists and philosophers of language. This Reader, featuring fourteen texts covering the core concepts and topics of Meschonnic’s theory, will enrich, enhance and challenge your understanding of language. It explores his key ideas on poetics, the poem, rhythm, discourse and his critique of the sign. Meschonnic’s vast oeuvre was continuously preoccupied with the question of a poetics of society; he constantly connected the theory of language to its practice in various fields and interrogated what that means for society. In exploring this fundamental question, this book is central to the study and philosophy of language, with rich repercussions in fields such as translation studies, poetics and literary studies, and in redefining notions such as rhythm, modernity, the poem and the subject.
What if meaning were the last thing that mattered in language? In this essay, Henri Meschonnic explains what it means to translate the sense of language and how to do it. In a radical stand against a ...hermeneutical approach based on the dualistic view of the linguistic sign and against its separation into a meaningful signified and a meaningless signifier, Henri Meschonnic argues for a poetics of translating. Because texts generate meaning through their power of expression, to translate ethically involves listening to the various rhythms that characterize them: prosodic, consonantal or vocalic patterns, syntactical structures, sentence length and punctuation, among other discursive means. However, as the book illustrates, such an endeavour goes against the grain and, more precisely, against a 2500-year-old tradition in the case of biblical translation. The inability of translators to give ear to rhythm in language results from a culturally transmitted deafness. Henri Meschonnic decries the generalized unwillingness to remedy this cultural condition and discusses the political implications for the subject of discourse.
Et le génie des langues ? Chiss, Jean-Louis; Meschonnic, Henri; Saint-Gérand, Jacques-Philippe ...
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Les beaux jours du génie de la langue ne sont pas finis, comme la linguistique officielle veut nous faire croire, depuis le scientisme du XIXe siècle jusqu’à celui d’aujourd’hui. On s’est attaché ici ...à montrer, à travers l’histoire d’une notion aussi vieille que le langage, qu’elle est toujours là, entre science et mythologie. Ce malin génie montre et cache à la fois des caractères réels, indiscutables, et brouille les rapports que nous avons toujours du mal à penser entre ce qu’est et ce que fait une langue, et une littérature, une pensée, une culture, une société. Ce livre essaie d’apporter une clarté nouvelle dans une obscurité que nous masque son caractère familier. La clarté française, par exemple. C’est le roman bourgeois, et comique, de la langue dont chaque lecteur pourra reconnaître qu’il l’a en lui, sans le savoir. C’est l’analyse spectrale d’un fantôme discret, mais omniprésent, chez les littéraires, les linguistes autant que les philosophes. De quoi piquer au vif tous les amoureux du langage.
"La traduction en citations contient plus de 2700 aphorismes, définitions, éloges, épigrammes, jugements, témoignages ou traits d’esprit sur la traduction, les traducteurs et les interprètes. ...Ces citations ont été glanées chez plus de huit cent auteurs, de l’Antiquité à nos jours et sont classées sous une centaine de thèmes tels que Art ingrat, Belles infidèles, Éloge du traducteur, Humour, Limites de la traduction, Traduire au féminin ou Vieillissement des traductions."--Fourni par l'éditeur.
Rhythm and Critique presents 12 new essays from a range of specialists to define, contextualise and challenge the concepts of rhythm and rhythmanalysis. It includes newly translated materials from ...Rudolf Laban and Henri Meschonnic.
Traduire, ce n'est pas écrire » / « Traduire n'est rien d'autre qu'écrire »
« On naît traducteur, on ne le devient pas » / « Le métier de traducteur, ça s'apprend »
Qu'en pensent Victor Hugo, Madame ...de Sévigné, Octavio Paz ou Umberto Eco? Et qu'en disent les théoriciens de la traductologie, comme Antony Pym ou Sherry Simon? Les idées s'entrechoquent allègrement dans ce florilège de citations : autant d'auteurs et de traducteurs, autant de partis pris sur l'acte de traduire.
La traduction en citations contient plus de 2700 aphorismes, définitions, éloges, épigrammes, jugements, témoignages ou traits d'esprit sur la traduction, les traducteurs et les interprètes. Ces citations ont été glanées chez plus de huit cent auteurs, de l'Antiquité à nos jours et sont classées sous une centaine de thèmes tels que Art ingrat, Belles infidèles, Éloge du traducteur, Humour, Limites de la traduction, Traduire au féminin ou Vieillissement des traductions.
Ce petit bijou, agréable à lire et à relire, est un incontournable sur la table de chevet de tout traducteur et de tout lecteur curieux. Sourires en coin garantis.
Henri Meschonnic’s piece of writing entitled “Traduzir no século XXI” readdresses how he conceived of translating. The starting point for his theory/practice is that translating is fully part of the ...theory of language. Therefore, reflecting on translating cannot but mean reflecting on language too and opting for a perspective that does not consider the discontinuity of the sign that opposes: sound/meaning, form/content, affect/concept, language/life. According to Meschonnic, life and language cannot be separated. Consequently, language is not considered via the sign, but rather via rhythm – redefined by Meschonnic as an organization of continuous speech movement. Meschonnic based his reflection and his theory on his practical experience of translating the Hebrew Bible.
The Europe of translation Meschonnic, Henri
Translation studies,
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Recenzirano
Translating is an act of language, and every act of language implies an ethics of language. Thus, a poetics of translating cannot be simply a regionally specific, autonomous reflection on the nature ...of translation, or even exclusively on what we call literature. Instead, the poetics of translating shows that each act of translation reveals its own theory of language, and that language itself implies a continuum and an interaction with art, ethics and politics. Translating is the experimental laboratory for this process, the key terrain for a critique of received ideas about language. Adapted from the source document
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