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modeling intersemiotic translation:notes towards a peircean account

daniella aguiar & joão queiroz

10th World Congress of Semiotics A Coruña -2009

Thematic Section: Semiotics of Translation



script >

> intersemiotic translation> definition> problem > questions

> proposal

> premises

> model

> conclusion



translation typology > Roman Jakobson (1959) >

intrasemiotic translation>

interlinguistic translation>intersemiotic translation>

„transmutation or interpretation of verbal signs by meansof signs of non verbal sign systems‟

examples

literature > cinema, theater, comics, dance

visual arts > architecture

comics > cinema

music > dance



the problem>

> how to describe the intersemiotictranslation phenomenon?

> can we generalize some rules or laws?

> how different semiotic systems are

related to each other in an intersemiotictranslation?



model



basic premises>

> intersemiotic translation is

fundamentally a semiotic

operation process (semiosis)

> semiosis is a multi-layered

process (see Queiroz & El-Hani2004, 2006)

Charles S. Peirce

Stanley N. Salthe



semiosis > cf. Peirce

> “… a Sign may be defined as a Medium forthe communication of a Form. [...]. As a

medium, the Sign is essentially in a triadic

relation, to its Object which determines it, andto its Interpretant which it determines. [...].

That which is communicated from the Object

through the Sign to the Interpretant is a Form;

that is to say, it is nothing like an existent, butis a power, is the fact that something would

happen under certain conditions” (EP 2.544,

n.22).



semiosis > cf. Peirce

sign

interpretantobject

form

Peirce stresses that form

is nothing like a „thing‟(De Tienne, 2003), but something that is

embodied in the object as a habit, a „rule of

action‟ (CP 5.397), a „disposition‟ (CP 2.170), a

„real potential‟ (EP 2.388)



semiosis > consequences >

process, triadic, context-

interpreter-dependent,materially extended



translation as multi-layered process > based on Salthe’s notion of multi-levelsystems (see Queiroz & El-Hani 2004, 2006)

an intersemiotic translation is arelation between multi-layered

processes

description levels > layers of organization

> level > cohesion [dynamically based onconstraints]



e.g. > poem > multi-layered system guided by constraining laws

historical

...

semantic

phonetic

graphic

rhythmic



poem poem

interlinguistic translation



interlinguistic translation: relationship between description levels

pragmatic

graphic

phonetic

historical

morphological

semantic

syntactic

pragmatic

graphic

phonetic

historical

morphological

semantic

syntactic



relation between 2 different systems

poem dance



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pragmatic

graphic

phonetic

historical

morphological

syntactic

relation between 2 different systems

semantic



scenography

movement

light

costumes

graphic

phonetic

morphological

semantic ?

problem



translation as multi-layered process

intersemiotic translation operates on

different „description levels‟, selectingrelevant aspects from the source and

recreating them into the target



rhythmic

light

graphic

phonetic

morphological

semantic

?

movement quality

movement dynamic

graphic

phonetic

morphological

semantic

?

problem



translation as multi-layered process

intersemiotic translation >

multi-hierarchical process of relation

between semi-independent layers of

description



intersemiotictranslation model



first model >

interpretant = semiotic-target =

translation

sign = semiotic source

O I

S

object = object of the

translated work



first model >

O I

S



„to translate means to understand the

internal system of a certain language, thestructure of a given text in this language and

to construct a double of the textual system

which, submitted to a certain discreetness,

could produce analogous effects on thereader, on the semantic and syntactic, as well

at the stylistic, metrical, phono-symbolic

levels, and also upon the passional effects to

which the source text tends‟

UMBERTO ECO, 2007



second model > the interpreter

interpretant = effect produced on the

interpreter

sign = semiotic target = translation

O I

S

object = semiotic source



second model > theinterpreter

O I

S



second model > fairy tales dance

interpretant = effect produced on the

interpreter

sign = semiotic target = translation

O I

S

object = semiotic source



second model > fairy tales dance

O I

S



semiosis + levels> 1th possibility

S

O Icostumes

rhythmic

…

movement

historical

pragmatical

…

syntactical

Object of the

semiotic-target



S

O I

Effect on the

interpreter

costumes

rhythmic

…

movement

historical

pragmatical

…

syntactical




S

O I

costumes

rhythmic

…

movement

historical

pragmatical

…

syntactical

thinking

emotion

…

sensation




consequences >

one of the consequences of our approach is the

importance ascribed to the materiality and dynamic

involved in intersemiotic translation, prioritizing thesemiotic properties of hierarchical relations

between the source and the target signs. The partial

results exhibited here constitute a preliminary

attempt toward modeling intersemiotic translation



references >

Aguiar, D. & Queiroz, J. (in press) Towards a model of intersemiotic translation. The

International Journal of the Arts in Society.

De Tienne, A. (2003). Learning qua semiosis. S.E.E.D. Journal -- Semiotics, Evolution,

Energy, and Development (3): 37-53.Eco, Umberto. (2007) Quase a mesma coisa. Rio de Janeiro: Record

Peirce, C. S. (EP1, EP2). The Essential Peirce. Selected Philosophical Writings. Vol. 1 (1867–

1893) (ed. by HOUSER, N. & KLOESEL, C.). Vol. 2 (1893–1913) (ed. by the Peirce Edition

Project). Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1992 and 1998.

__. (1931–1935). The Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce. Electronic edition

reproducing Vols. I–VI [HARTSHORNE, C. & WEISS, P. (Eds.), Cambridge: Harvard University

Press, 1931–1935], Vols. VII–VIII [A. W. BURKS (Ed.), same publisher, 1958]. Charlottesville:Intelex Corporation.

Queiroz, J. & El-Hani, C. N. (2006). Queiroz, J. & El-Hani, C. (2006). Towards a multi-level

approach to the emergence of meaning in living systems. Acta Biotheoretica 54: 179-206.

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/acbi/2006/00000054/00000003/00008177

__. (2004). Towards a multi-level approach to the emergence of semiosis. Technical Report

DCA-FEEC 04-07; 1-21.

Salthe, S. N. (1985). Evolving Hierarchical Systems: Their Structure and Representation.

New York: Columbia University Press.



Daniella Aguiar 1

http://daniellaaguiar.blogspot.com/ [email protected]

João Queiroz 2,3

www.semiotics.pro.br [email protected]

1 > Graduation Program in Literature – State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)

2 > Research Group on Cognitive Science and Semiotics -

Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF)

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