The Image of Translation in Science Fiction & Astronomy
1996; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 2; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/13556509.1996.10798961
ISSN1757-0409
Autores Tópico(s)Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
ResumoAbstractThe concept of translation is examined in a body of writings that include science fiction along with works by astronomers interested in communication with extraterrestrial intelligent beings. Most science fiction writers avoid the issue by invoking telepathy, machine translation or a pancosmic lingua franca. The astronomers, and the science fiction writers who do consider the issue, seem (with very few exceptions) to believe that the conditions for translatability are met: universal physical, logical and mathematical constants provide the necessary common background for understanding. Either the constants can serve as keys to language decipherment and translation, or else pictures or formal languages based on the constants can be used to communicate with aliens. This article focuses on the few writers who are sceptical about such claims, and on a number of serious gaps in the view of language on which these claims are based. Appendix A: CorpusPart I: Science Fiction Novels and Short Stories Brunner, John (1974) Total Eclipse, New York: Daw Books. Google Scholar Delany, Samuel (1966) Babel 17, New York: Ace Books. Google Scholar Forward, Robert (1980) Dragon's Egg, New York and Toronto: Random House. Google Scholar Gallun, Raymond (1934) 'Old Faithful'; reprinted in I. Azimov (ed) (1974) Before the Golden Age, London: Robson Books. Google Scholar Gunn, James (1972) The Listeners, New York: New American Library. Google Scholar Hamilton, Edmond (1960) The Haunted Stars, New York: Dodd Mead. Google Scholar Hoyle, Fred (1957) The Black Cloud, New York: Harper. Google Scholar Hoyle, Fred and John Elliot (1962) A for Andromeda, London: Souvenir Press. Google Scholar Kube-McDowell, Michael (1985) Emprise, New York: Berkley. Google Scholar Leiber, Justin (1987) Beyond Humanity, New York: TOR. Google Scholar Lem, Stanislaw (1968) Głos pana, Warsaw: Czytelnik; translated by Michael Kandel, 1983, as His Master's Voice, New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Google Scholar McDevitt, Jack (1986) The Hercules Text, New York: Ace Books. Google Scholar Piper, H. Beam (1957) 'Omnilingual'; reprinted in T. E. Dikty (ed) (1966) Great Science Fiction Stories About Mars, New York: Frederick Fall. Google Scholar Sagan, Carl (1985) Contact, New York: Simon & Schuster. Google Scholar White, Cecil (1927) 'Retreat to Mars'; reprinted in G. Conklin (ed) (1946) Best of Science Fiction, New York: Crown. Google Scholar Zerwick, Chloe and Harrison Brown (1968) The Cassiopeia Affair, Garden City, N.J.: Doubleday. Google ScholarPart II: Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence Billingham, J. and B. M. Oliver (1971) Project Cyclops: a Design of a System for Detecting Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life (NASA CR-114445), Moffett Field, California: NASA/Ames Research Centre. Google Scholar Bracewell, R. N. (1975) The Galactic Club: Intelligent Life in Outer Space, San Francisco: Freeman. Google Scholar Cameron, A. G. W. (ed) (1963) Interstellar Communication: a Collection of Reprints and Original Contributions, New York: Benjamin. Google Scholar Deavours, C. A. (1985) 'Extraterrestrial Communication: a Cryptologic Perspective', in E. Regis (ed) (1985) Extraterrestrials: Science and Alien Intelligence, London: Cambridge University Press, 201–214. Google Scholar Devito, C. L. and R. T. Oehrle (1990) 'A Language Based on the Fundamental Facts of Science ', Journal of the British Interplanetary Society 43: 561–68. Google Scholar Drake, Frank (1992) Is Anyone Out There?, New York: Delacorte Press. Google Scholar Freudenthal, Hans (1960) Lincos: Design of a Language for Cosmic Intercourse, Amsterdam: North-Holland. Google Scholar Ponnamperuma, Cyril and A. G. W. Cameron (eds) (1974) Interstellar Communication: Scientific Perspectives, Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Google Scholar Sagan, Carl (ed) (1973) Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press. Google Scholar Sagan, Carl and Frank Drake (1975) 'The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence' , Scientific American 232(5): 80–89. Google Scholar Shklovskij, I. S. (1963) Vselennaja, zhizn', razum, Moscow: Nauka; translated by Paula Fern and extended and revised by Carl Sagan, 1966, as Intelligent Life in the Universe, San Francisco: Holden-Day. Google Scholar Sneath, P. H. A. (1970) Planets and Life, London: Thames and Hudson (Chapter 9). Google Scholar Soviet CETI Report (1974) in Astronomicheskij Zhurnal 51: 1125–32 (in Russian); translated in Philip Morrison, John Billingham and Morris Wolfe (eds) The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (NASA SP-419), 1977, Washington: NASA Scientific and Technical Information Office. Google ScholarAdditional informationNotes on contributorsBrian MossopBrian Mossop, 14 Monteith Street, Toronto, Ontario M4Y 1K7, Canada. GL252251@Orion.YorkU.CA
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