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Kobus Marais. Translation Theory and Development Studies: A Complexity Theory Approach
No full textTranslation Theory and Development Studies: A Complexity Theory Approach. Kobus Marais. London: Routledge, 2013. 232 pp. Hb. ISBN: 978-0-415-84035-4. £ 80.00
Intersemiotic approaches
No full textAs a condition for sign activity overall, translation is not reducible to the verbal-linguistic order but expands through the entire semio(bio)sphere. Translation occurs internally, endosemiosically, within the different semiospheres, including the non-human, as much as it occurs intersemiosically between the human and non-human, and within the human between the verbal and nonverbal, and so forth. This chapter proposes an interdisciplinary approach to translation and translatability exploring sign activity at the interface between semiotics, translation studies, adaptation studies and intermedia studies where different perspectives and methodologies intersect, challenging canonical boundaries and definitions. Relatedly to semiosis in the human world and beyond, translation commonly understood as interlingual communication, we investigate intersemiotic or multimodal translation involving cultural traditions, social practices, the production of verbal and nonverbal artifacts, including adaptations, appropriations, remixes, and transmediations.
This chapter is structured in two parts: the first, ‘Intersemiotic translation across semiotics and translation studies: definitions, taxonomies, perspectives,’ offers an overview of some key trends in intersemiotic translation. Exemplifications are offered from translational practice, thus strengthening our intersemiotic and interpretive perspective. The second part, ‘The intersemiotic nature of sign, language and meaning, and implications for translation,’ conceptualizes translation as intersemiotic process and explores aspects of the deeper theory. Translation serves as a meta-concept for thinking about different orders of dialogic transferral, transformation, transvaluation. Intersemiotic translation presupposes ongoing and all-encompassing intersemiosic activity occurring in and among organisms, where meaning is in becoming in the dynamic interaction among sign systems in their globality. Our focus in this chapter is on semiosis in the proper human world
The representation of agents of translation in (South) Africa
No full textThis article discusses agency in translation as conceptualized in recent developments in Translation Studies. As a subtext, it poses the representation of its own data as a methodological problem. The article discusses Donald Strachan as a possible agent of translation, probing the implications of his interpreting and translation work in a border setting in South Africa in the late 1800s. It then juxtaposes this perspective with the translation theory of Edwin Gentzler, who claims that translators are creating cultures by way of their work. From this encounter, the author suggests a number of implications for researching translation in Africa. The paper ends by reflecting on its own subtext.</jats:p
Translation beyond translation studies<i> </i>
No full textReview of Translation beyond translation studies, edited by Kobus Marais, London, New York, and Dublin, Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, 264 pp., £117 (hardback), ISBN: 9781350192119; £93.60 (eBook: PDF), ISBN: 9781350192126; £93.60 (eBook: Epub and Mobi), ISBN: 9781350192133<br/
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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