Reception, translation and cultural context

Projects for Greimas’sSémantique structurale(1966) in English, the place of linguistics in the human sciences, and Franco-American disconnections

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3955447
AutoresThomas F Broden (0000-0001-5524-6129, Purdue University USA, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume48
Fascículo1
Páginas83-117
Data de publicação2021-10-25
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHistoriographia Linguistica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0302-5160 • E-ISSN: 1569-9781
EditoraJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/hl.00066.bro
OpenAlexW3121680122
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas83

The initiatives to publish an English translation of the influentialSémantique structurale(1966) by linguist and semiotician A. J. Greimas (1917-1992) provide an instructive case study for the reception of a work in new contexts. The efforts underscore the importance of (dis)connections between cultures' intellectual traditions and trends, putting in play the relations between continental and American linguistic structuralism, generative semantics, cognitive linguistics, and "French" (post)structuralism throughout the human sciences. The projects also point up the significance of timing and of standards for translation quality - and the possibilities for controversy. In addition to published research, this study draws from archival documents and personal communications with Greimas, his translators and editors, and other principals involved

Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Generative grammar · Linguistics · Point (geometry · Political science · Publication · Sociology · Structuralism (philosophy of science · Translation studies · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy · Semiotics and Representation Studies