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Translating the World

Science and Language

Sundar Sarukkai

Translating the World begins by showing how discursive and writing strategies contribute to the ontology and epistemology of science, which includes understanding the special ways in which science uses language, whether it is natural language, mathematics or other semiotic systems. What this study reveals is that mathematics is not simply about logic and deduction, but also has unique strategies of writing its 'alphabets,' uses rhetoric, draws upon metaphorical images and has an essential relationship to natural language.
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University Press of America
Pages: 188 • Trim: 5⅜ x 8½
978-0-7618-2272-1 • Paperback • May 2002 • $70.99 • (£55.00)
Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General, Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Semantics
Sundar Sarukkai is Fellow, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore.
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 Writing Theories:
Chapter 4 Writing Science
Chapter 5 The Writing of Mathematics
Chapter 6 The Text of Science
Chapter 7 Making Meaning:
Chapter 8 Theories and Meaning
Chapter 9 Hermeneutics and Scientific Discourse
Chapter 10 Making Meaning of the World
Chapter 11 Science, Language and Translation:
Chapter 12 Literature, Translation, and Science
Chapter 13 Philosophy, Translation and Science
Chapter 14 Mathematics, Language and Translation
Chapter 15 Notes
Chapter 16 Reference
Chapter 17 Index
Chapter 18 Biographical Sketch
?TW is a timely, challenging, empirically grounded, and theoretically sophisticated book?It is a very valuable attempt to construct a third culture in which the traditions of listening and suspicion are kept simultaneously alive. One couldn't have asked for more.
— Rajendra Singh, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada; Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy


…TW is a timely, challenging, empirically grounded, and theoretically sophisticated book…It is a very valuable attempt to construct a third culture in which the traditions of listening and suspicion are kept simultaneously alive. One couldn't have asked for more.
— Rajendra Singh, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada; Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy


Translating the World

Science and Language

Cover Image
Paperback
Summary
Summary
  • Translating the World begins by showing how discursive and writing strategies contribute to the ontology and epistemology of science, which includes understanding the special ways in which science uses language, whether it is natural language, mathematics or other semiotic systems. What this study reveals is that mathematics is not simply about logic and deduction, but also has unique strategies of writing its 'alphabets,' uses rhetoric, draws upon metaphorical images and has an essential relationship to natural language.
Details
Details
  • University Press of America
    Pages: 188 • Trim: 5⅜ x 8½
    978-0-7618-2272-1 • Paperback • May 2002 • $70.99 • (£55.00)
    Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General, Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Semantics
Author
Author
  • Sundar Sarukkai is Fellow, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Chapter 1 Preface
    Chapter 2 Introduction
    Chapter 3 Writing Theories:
    Chapter 4 Writing Science
    Chapter 5 The Writing of Mathematics
    Chapter 6 The Text of Science
    Chapter 7 Making Meaning:
    Chapter 8 Theories and Meaning
    Chapter 9 Hermeneutics and Scientific Discourse
    Chapter 10 Making Meaning of the World
    Chapter 11 Science, Language and Translation:
    Chapter 12 Literature, Translation, and Science
    Chapter 13 Philosophy, Translation and Science
    Chapter 14 Mathematics, Language and Translation
    Chapter 15 Notes
    Chapter 16 Reference
    Chapter 17 Index
    Chapter 18 Biographical Sketch
Reviews
Reviews
  • ?TW is a timely, challenging, empirically grounded, and theoretically sophisticated book?It is a very valuable attempt to construct a third culture in which the traditions of listening and suspicion are kept simultaneously alive. One couldn't have asked for more.
    — Rajendra Singh, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada; Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy


    …TW is a timely, challenging, empirically grounded, and theoretically sophisticated book…It is a very valuable attempt to construct a third culture in which the traditions of listening and suspicion are kept simultaneously alive. One couldn't have asked for more.
    — Rajendra Singh, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada; Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy


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