By Dirk Delabastita
Nothing like wordplay could make distinction among languages glance so uncompromising, can provide one of these sharp area to the predicament among kinds and results, can so blur the road among translation and version, or can solid such harsh mild on our phantasm of entire semantic balance. within the pun the total language approach might resonate, and so may perhaps literary traditions and ideological discourses. It follows that the pun doesn't in basic terms placed translators to the attempt, it additionally poses a problem to the perspectives and ideas of these who research translation.
This ebook brings jointly specialists on translation and the pun, in addition to researchers representing quite a few different correct disciplines and colleges of proposal, starting from theology to deconstruction and from contrastive linguistics to feminism. it may be learn as a significant other quantity to Wordplay and Translation, a unique factor of The Translator (Volume 2, quantity 2, 1996), additionally edited via Dirk Delabastita
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Paradoxically, it juxtaposes recog nition of the arbitrariness of language with a suggestion that language is motivated by providential intention. Gregory’s wordplay accesses English proper names of Germanic origin — words that, by virtue of their being proper to a language and to a singular identity, are usually considered inac cessible to translation — and then reads them according to the system of another language, the language of the Church. The intention, or the manner of intending of these names, is read across languages.
In fairness, one should note that Van den Broeck has at least in part been influenced by Philip E. Lewis’s ‘The Measure of Translation Effects’ (1985), an argument of a deconstructive nature that leans toward pre scribing what Lewis calls abusive translation. Lewis does not claim to represent Derrida or deconstruction, but works “via some abusive use of snatches of Derrida” (ibid:45), and his special concern is with reducing the inevitable losses incurred in translating the highly playful, polysemous, allusive writing of Derrida.
This articlefocuses on wordplay translation in the German version o f Mary Daly’s American feminist classic ‘Gyn/Ecology ’. It sets both the source text and the translation into the context o f feminist discursive practices o f their time, looks in some detail at the German translator’s options and solutions fo r wordplay translation, and discusses their effects. Résumé. Les écrits féministes des années 1970 ont été considérés dans beaucoup de littératures occidentales comme une produc tion littéraire avant-gardiste ayant un impact politique.