Language in Flight: Home and Elsewhere

How is meaning conceptualized within a language in terms of capacities and potentials of words and sentences? Analyzing words within the sentence as event-makers in Sanskrit and as creating new possibilities and of divining events in Chinese, this paper argues that writing commentaries, making trans...

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Altri titoli:"Special Issue on Steps to a Global Thought: Thinking from Elsewhere (pp. 411–611)"
Autori: Brandel, Andrew (Autore) ; Das, Veena 1945- (Autore) ; Puett, Michael J. 1964- (Autore)
Tipo di documento: Elettronico Articolo
Lingua:Inglese
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Pubblicazione: 2023
In: Sophia
Anno: 2023, Volume: 62, Fascicolo: 3, Pagine: 449-483
Altre parole chiave:B Indian Philosophy
B Traslazione
B Chinese philosophy
B Theory of action
B Grammar
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Riepilogo:How is meaning conceptualized within a language in terms of capacities and potentials of words and sentences? Analyzing words within the sentence as event-makers in Sanskrit and as creating new possibilities and of divining events in Chinese, this paper argues that writing commentaries, making translations, reciting texts and transcribing them, belong to a family of activities that we normally do with language. Thus, movement of every element of language from one place to another whether within a word, a character, a sentence, a text or between two languages is not something added from the outside, it is internal to the experience of language. We ask what bearing might such an insight have on dominant theories of translation and the untranslatable in contemporary theorizing that has been framed primarily in terms of the history of Europe's understanding of itself.
ISSN:1873-930X
Comprende:Enthalten in: Sophia
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s11841-023-00946-3