The Complexity of Social-Cultural Emergence: Biosemiotics, Semiotics and Translation Studies

The volume, which presents a selection of papers read at a conference in 2022 with the same title as the book, engages the systems of matter-energy, biology, and significance from which and in relation to which society-culture emerges.

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1. Verfasser: Marais, Kobus 1964- (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Meylaerts, Reine (MitwirkendeR), Gonne, Maud (MitwirkendeR)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam/Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company 2024
Schriftenreihe:Benjamins Translation Library v.164
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Zusammenfassung:The volume, which presents a selection of papers read at a conference in 2022 with the same title as the book, engages the systems of matter-energy, biology, and significance from which and in relation to which society-culture emerges.
Intro -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- In search of the patterns that connect -- Connecting mind and matter -- From the biosphere to the tradosphere -- The patterns that connect biology, semiotics, and translation studies -- -- Chapter 1 Towards a protyposis-based semiotic theory of translation -- Introduction -- Theoretical framework -- Conclusion -- -- Chapter 2 Infoautopoiesis and translation -- Introduction -- What is information? -- The fundamental problem of information -- Infoautopoiesis -- The organism-in-its-environment -- Self-creation, processing and transmission of information -- Personal-subjective-relative information -- Impersonal-objective-absolute information -- Shannon-distilled information -- Sensorial signals and infoautopoiesis -- Flow of information -- Peircean typology of signs -- Interpretation and translation -- Interactions of infoautopoietic organisms -- Interactions between infoautopoietic organisms -- Interactions between an infoautopoietic organism and objects -- Summary and discussion -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- -- Chapter 3 Taking the measure of the Mississippi -- The language of complexity -- The conundrum of anthropocentrism in the anthropocene -- Geologics and the inhuman -- Material discursivity and agential realism -- The productive apparatus -- The agential cut -- Latour de force -- "Taking the measure of" -- Conclusion -- -- Chapter 4 Animal photojournalism as knowledge translation -- Introduction -- An argument for a semiotic enlarging of translation studies -- Why ecosemiotics? -- The human/non-human relationship -- Translation and activism -- Photojournalism and activism -- Knowledge translation -- Non-human and human agency in knowledge translation -- The photographs -- Agency in photography -- Activist intersemiotic translation as knowledge translation -- Conclusion.
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ISBN:9789027246943
DOI:10.1075/btl.164

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