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C. S. Peirce and Intersemiotic Translation

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Intersemiotic translation (IT) was defined by Roman Jakobson (The Translation Studies Reader, Routledge, London, p. 114, 2000) as “transmutation of signs”—“an interpretation of verbal signs by means of signs of nonverbal sign systems.” Despite its theoretical relevance, and in spite of the frequency in which it is practiced, the phenomenon remains virtually unexplored in terms of conceptual modeling, especially from a semiotic perspective. Our approach is based on two premises: (i) IT is fundamentally a semiotic operation process (semiosis) and (ii) IT is a deeply iconic-dependent process. We exemplify our approach by means of literature to dance IT and we explore some implications for the development of a general model of IT.

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Notes

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    For Plaza (1987), there are three types of intersemiotic translation: iconic, indexical, and symbolic. He also suggests examples involving poetry and visual arts, including new digital media.

  2. 2.

    We shall follow the practice of citing from the Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce (1931−1935, 1958) by volume number and paragraph number, preceded by “CP”; the Essential Peirce by volume number and page number, preceded by “EP.” References to the microfilm edition of Peirce's papers (Harvard University) will be indicated by “MS,” followed by the manuscript number.

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    For more information about the choreography: http://www.ndt.nl/en/ballets/13.

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    In the linguistic sense, transcription is the systematic representation of the oral language in the written on. In general, transcription and translation are considered distinct phenomena. Transcription refers strictly to the passage from spoken language to the written one, involving the transposition of each word. On the other hand, translation, in the strict sense, involves two distinct idioms and the impossibility, by principle, of exact correspondence of all the elements between source and target.

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Acknowledgments

Daniella Aguiar would like to acknowledge the support received, in the form of research grant, from CAPES Foundation, the Ministry of Education of Brazil, Brasília—DF 70040-020, Brazil (postdoctoral studies grant).

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    João Queiroz

  2. Graduate Program on Literary Studies, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Juiz de Fora, Brazil

    Daniella Aguiar

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Queiroz, J., Aguiar, D. (2015). C. S. Peirce and Intersemiotic Translation. In: Trifonas, P. (eds) International Handbook of Semiotics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9404-6_7

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