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Reception, translation and cultural context

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

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Published online: 9 March 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.00066.bro
Summary
The initiatives to publish an English translation of the influential Sémantique 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.
Résumé
Les projets pour publier une traduction anglaise de Sémantique structurale (1966), le livre phare du linguiste et sémioticien A. J. Greimas (1917–1992), offrent une étude de cas révélatrice pour comprendre la réception d’une œuvre dans des contextes nouveaux. Les initiatives soulignent l’influence qu’exercent les convergences et les divergences entre les traditions et tendances intellectuelles de différentes cultures. En l’occurrence, les tentatives pour faire traduire la monographie mettent en jeu les rapports entre la linguistique structurale européenne et américaine, la sémantique générative, la linguistique cognitive et le (post)structuralisme dit “français” dans les sciences humaines. Les efforts pointent aussi le rôle joué par la chronologie, les risques que peut introduire l’exigence d’une traduction de qualité et les dangers posés par les controverses. En plus des travaux publiés, cet article s’appuie sur des documents archivistiques et sur des communications personnelles avec Greimas, ses traducteurs et ses éditeurs et avec d’autres personnes concernées.
Zusammenfassung
Die Initiativen, eine englische Übersetzung der einflussreichen Sémantique structurale (1966) des Linguisten und Semiotikers A. J. Greimas (1917–1992) zu veröffentlichen, bieten eine aufschlussreiche Fallstudie für die Rezeption eines Werkes in neuen Kontexten. Die Bemühungen unterstreichen die Bedeutung von Verbindungen und Trennlinien zwischen intellektuellen Traditionen und Trends von Kulturen, und sie bringen die Beziehungen zwischen dem kontinentalen und amerikanischen linguistischen Strukturalismus, generativer Semantik, der Kognitiven Linguistik und dem “französischen” (Post-) Strukturalismus in allen Humanwissenschaften ins Spiel. Die Vorhaben weisen auch auf die Bedeutung von Timing und von Standards für die Übersetzungsqualität – und die möglichen Kontroversen hin. Über veröffentlichte Forschung hinaus verwendet diese Studie Archivgut und Informationen aus persönlichen Kontakten mit Greimas, seinen Übersetzern und Herausgebern, und anderen Beteiligten.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.A. J. Greimas and “Sémantique structurale”
  • 3.For an English translation of “Sémantique structurale”
  • 4.The international diffusion of continental structuralism and new efforts for an English “Structural Semantics”
  • 5.Convergences, potential opportunities, and challenges
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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