PDF-(READ)-Beyond Translation: Essays toward a Modern Philology

This is not only a new philology but a new American linguistic philology Beckers harvest over a lifetime will be widely welcomed and respected Paul Friedrich University of Chicago a book of extraordinary quality and importance James Boyd White University of Michigan How does Ralph Waldo Emerson sound in KawiIn this collection of essays A L Becker develops a new approach to translation he calls modern philology an approach that insists beyond translation on the sorting out of ambiguities and contexts of meaning Becker describes how texts in Burmese Javanese and Malay differ profoundly from English in all the ways they have meaning in the games they play the worlds they constitute the memories they evoke and the silences they maintain In each of these dimensions there are excesses and inadequacies of meaning that make a difference across languagesDrawn from over three decades of studying teaching translating and writing about Southeast Asian languages and literatures the essays collected here for the first time are particular accounts of Beckers experiences in attempting to translate into or out of Burmese Javanese and Malay a variety of texts They describe such things as the building of a Javanese shadowplay how a Sanskrit story about the language of animals has been used in Indonesia and some of the profound semantic silences a translator faces in taking an anecdote by Gregory Bateson from English into MalayIn linguistics the essays emphasize important kinds of nonuniversality in all aspects of language and look toward a new theory of language grounded in American pragmatism In anthropology the essays demonstrate that much of culture can be described in terms of textbuilding strategies And for the comparativist whether in literature history rhetoric music or psychology the essays provide a new array of tools of comparison across distant languages and culturesA L Becker is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Anthropology University of Michigan. brPage 1br toward toward brPage 2br away from away from brPage 3br spectrum brPage 4br brPage 5br brPage 6br brPage 7br brPage 8br brPage 9br br . 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