From Ezra Pound’s idea of the translator as a recreator, from Walter Benjamin’s polemic about the primacy of the source language over the target language (the idea of source and target languages has been questioned by linguists such as Henri Meschonnic, especially in his book Poétique du traduire), in Peirce’s theory of signs and in such authors as Valéry and Eliot, Haraldo de Campos’s theory of transcreation emphasizes the recreation of the source text through a vigilant process of criticism, in which the whole is always greater than the sum of its parts, influencing this totality in an indelible manner, in the constitution of meaning and the subsequent “appropriation” of this meaning by the translator.
Destroyed in a fire in 2015, the Museum of the Portuguese Language in São Paulo - the only one of its kind in the world – is being rebuilt and is expected to reopen at the start of 2020.
The International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL) 2019 was established by UNESCO as a way to call attention to the need to preserve and promote indigenous languages in today’s world.
The anthropologist Ray Birdwhistell states that in any face-to-face conversation, only 35% of the message is transmitted through words, and that the remaining 65% of what we say is transmitted through gestures, facial expressions and posture.
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