Are We Always Translating Signs Whether We Know It or Not?
Part of : Γράμμα : περιοδικό θεωρίας και κριτικής ; Vol.20, 2012, pages 73-90
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This paper is an extended review-and-discussion of Professor Dinda Gorlée’srecent book Wittgenstein in Translation: Exploring Semiotic Signatures.Professor Gorlée’s volume focuses on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s fragments,many of which ended up in enticingly interconnected books primarilyedited by others, and Charles S. Peirce’s stops and starts ending inmounds of unpublished papers, a fraction of which have found their waybetween book covers. Both authors challenge whoever might venture totranslate them, especially when they have so much to say on vague and uncertaininterpretations, which is to say, translations.
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