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  • Trajectories of Translation

    The Thermodynamics of Semiosis

    by Kobus Marais ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    This book builds on Marais’s innovative A (Bio)Semiotic Theory of Translation to explore the implications of this conceptualization of translation as the semiotic work from which social-cultural reality emerges and chart the way forward for applications in empirical research.The volume brings together some of the latest developments in biosemiotics, social semiotics and Peircean semiotics with ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • A (Bio)Semiotic Theory of Translation

    The Emergence of Social-Cultural Reality

    by Kobus Marais ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    This volume outlines a theory of translation, set within the framework of Peircean semiotics, which challenges the linguistic bias in translation studies by proposing a semiotic theory that accounts for all instances of translation, not only interlinguistic translation. In particular, the volume explores cases of translation which does not include language at all. The book begins by examining ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Translation Theory and Development Studies

    A Complexity Theory Approach

    by Kobus Marais ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    This book aims to provide a philosophical underpinning to translation and relate translation to development. The second aim flows from the first section’s argument that societies emerge out of, amongst others, complex translational interactions amongst individuals. It will do so by conceptualising translation from a complexity and emergence point of view and relating this view on emergent ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Translation Beyond Translation Studies

    Edited by Dr Kobus Marais ...
    What is 'translation'? Even as the scholarly viewpoint of translation studies has expanded over recent years, the notion of 'translation' has remained fixedly defined by its interlinguistic element. However, there are many different contexts and disciplines in which translation takes place for which this definition is entirely unsuitable.Exploring translational aspects in contexts in which ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Exploring the Implications of Complexity Thinking for Translation Studies

    Edited by Kobus Marais, Reine Meylaerts ...
    Series series The IATIS Yearbook
    Exploring the Implications of Complexity Thinking for Translation Studies considers the new link between translation studies and complexity thinking. Edited by leading scholars in this emerging field, the collection builds on and expands work done in complexity thinking in translation studies over the past decade.In this volume, the contributors address a variety of implications that this new ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Complexity Thinking in Translation Studies

    Methodological Considerations

    Edited by Kobus Marais, Reine Meylaerts ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    This volume highlights a range of perspectives on the ways in which complexity thinking might be applied in translation studies, focusing in particular on methods to achieve this. The book introduces the topic with a brief overview of the history and conceptualization of complexity thinking. The volume then frames complexity theory through a variety of lenses, including translation and society, ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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    Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power

    by John Searle ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy
    Our self-conception derives mostly from our own experience. We believe ourselves to be conscious, rational, social, ethical, language-using, political agents who possess free will. Yet we know we exist in a universe that consists of mindless, meaningless, unfree, nonrational, brute physical particles. How can we resolve the conflict between these two visions?In Freedom and Neurobiology, the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Extended Mind

    The Emergence of Language, the Human Mind, and Culture

    by Robert K. Logan ...
    The ability to communicate through language is such a fundamental part of human existence that we often take it for granted, rarely considering how sophisticated the process is by which we understand and make ourselves understood. In The Extended Mind, acclaimed author Robert K. Logan examines the origin, emergence, and co-evolution of language, the human mind, and culture.Building on his previous ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Translation Studies

    by Jeremy Munday ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Translation Studies brings together clear, detailed essays from leading international scholars on major areas in Translation Studies today.This accessible and authoritative guide offers fresh perspectives on linguistics, context, culture, politics and ethics and contains a range of contributions on emerging areas such as cognitive theories, technology, interpreting and ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Gilbert Simondon

    Information, Technology and Media

    by Simon Mills ...
    Gilbert Simondon: Information, Technology and Media is a comprehensive introduction to the work of the French philosopher Gilbert Simondon. In particular it examines Simondon's original informational ontology, as developed from a synthesis of Cybernetics, thermodynamics and French epistemology,The book goes on to delineate the role this ontology plays in developing an original account of ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Speculative Aesthetics

    Edited by Robin Mackay, James Trafford, Luke Pendrell ...
    Series Book 4 - Urbanomic / Redactions
    An examination of the new technological mediations between the human sensorium and the planetary media network and of the aesthetic as an enabler of new modes of knowledge.This series of interventions on the ramifications of Speculative Realism for aesthetics ranges from contemporary art's relation to the aesthetic, to accelerationism and abstraction, logic and design.From varied perspectives of ... Read more

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  • Genre Studies Around the Globe

    Beyond the Three Traditions

    by Natasha Artemeva ...
    Genre Studies around the Globe: Beyond the Three Traditions exemplifies rich and vibrant international scholarship in the area of non-literary genre studies in the early 21st century. Based on the Genre 2012 conference held in Ottawa, Canada, the volume brings under one cover the three Anglophone traditions (English for Specific Purposes, the Sydney School, Rhetorical Genre Studies) and the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD