Translation as growth : towards a theory of language development

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Cover Translation as Growth Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Writing as Othering: Translating as Changing Personal Terminations Opening Up Location Locution Waiting for Foucault Concluding Remarks Creativity and Translativity: a Case for Double Articulation? The Parallel Why Translate? The Contemporary Author and Linguistic Manipulations The Difficulties of Building a Theory Source Language: Bhojpuri Source Language: Maithili Source Language: Bengali More Problems Contextualizing the Text Source Language : Gujarati Cultural Differences Conclusion Thoughts on Theories of Texts and Translation The Text and the World Sociology of Translationa The Postmodern: Problem with Prefixation Marx as Postmodern The two ‘D’S: Derrida and Deconstruction The French Theorists and the Americanreaction In Conclusion: Mapping Postmodernity Translation:Try thy Metaphor Translation as Communication Literary Translation The ‘why’ Question The ‘how’ Question The ‘what’ Question Theoretical issues Vertical and Horizontal odel of anslation Translation as Growth Translation, Translucence and transcendence Losses and Gains Translation as Rewriting: Accoladesand Brickbats The Text and the Work Translation as Interpretation Reading of Literary Texts : the Anomaly The Source and the Target A Comparison Meaning Loss Source Language: (Telugu) Problematic Areas Source Language: Sanskrit Genetically Unrelated Languagesand Translation In Conclusion Translating Uttar-Aadhunikataa: Debates from the ‘Bhaasaa’ literary Scene The Background Aadhunikataa as a Aradigm Canonization and Universals Imaging Aadhunikataa: Decaying ‘Modernity’ Uttar-Aadhunikataa: Lessons for a new translation Theorya Conclusion Some Thoughts on Transcreation of Textsa On Imagination Aesthetics of Translation Translation as Literature Three Positive Aspects of Deviation No Apologies for Manipulation The Text and the Work: Scriptible Versus Lisible Viewing Translation as an Activity Original Text: ‘the Disintegration of the Janata Dal (Jd)’ Translator A’s Version Translator B’s Version Aesthetics of Transcreation Viewed Linguistically Nominal Imagery Other Imageries The Nature of Creativity Conclusion Saying it Again: on Building Models of literary Translation Aims and Objectives Paraphrasing as Translation Assumptions Translation as an Extension of Speech Activity Is Translation a Secondary Speech Activity? Interlingual Paraphrasing Among Bilinguals Paraphrasing Between Speech Varieties and Styles Translational Criteria Total and Partial Translation Rank-Bound and Unbounded Translation Communicative and Semantic Translation Consequences Translating Alien Cultures: Search for the Native Speech as Chaos: Translation as Cacophony Duality of Patterning The Original Text and the Metaphors Texts as Both Grammatical and Social Constructs Reflections on Literary Translation Lamentations and Celebrations Purity of Lore: the Absence of Pure folkloristics Myths and Lore and Their Socio-Cultural Role Folkloristic Universals The Variationists Spoken Versus Written Bibliography Credits Index About the Author