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In:Border Crossings: Translation Studies and other disciplines
Edited by Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer
[Benjamins Translation Library 126] 2016
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Biosemiotics and translation studies

Challenging ‘translation’

ORCiD logo with link | University of the Free State, Bloemfontein
 | University of Tartu
Published online: 14 September 2016
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https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.126.08mar
In this chapter, we explore the mutual fecundation to which an interdisciplinary perspective between biosemiotics and translation studies may lead. In particular, we explore the expansion of the notion of translation itself brought about by thinking from the realm of biosemiotics. We also explore the enrichment of the notions of semiosis and meaning-making in biological sciences that may result from an interdisciplinary debate with translation studies. In the process, we illustrate by means of the article a possible process and outcomes of such interdisciplinary work, choosing not to reflect on interdisciplinarity but to show it in action. The chapter brings into dialogue Peircean semiotics and the most recent literature in biosemiotics in a demonstration of how interdisciplinary communication can enrich both fields of study under the rubric of intersemiotic translation.
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