Ubiquitous Translation / Edition 1

ISBN-13: 9781138182417 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Publication date: 07/19/2016 Series: Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies Pages: 202 Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) In this book, Piotr Blumczynski explores the central role of translation as a key epistemological concept as well as a hermeneutic, ethical, linguistic and interpersonal practice. His argument is three-fold: (1) that translation provides a basis for genuine, exciting, serious, innovative and meaningful exchange between various areas of the humanities through both a concept (the WHAT) and a method (the HOW); (2) that, in doing so, it questions and challenges many of the traditional boundaries and offers a transdisciplinary epistemological paradigm, leading to a new understanding of quality, and thus also meaning, truth, and knowledge; and (3) that translational phenomena are studied by a broad range of disciplines in the humanities (including philosophy, theology, linguistics, and an