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From Royal Society to the 2020 Olympics: Transcultural Symbolic Languages
Edward Tenner, Rutgers University
September 16, 2019 · 12:00 pm—1:30 pm · 144 Louis A. Simpson Building
Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication
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Previous translation lectures have focused on the richness of metaphor and the challenges and rewards if affords translators and their readers. Beginning in the seventeenth century a powerful countercurrent has appeared: suspicion of the ambiguity of language and a search for an alternative symbolic system to purify thinking and break down cultural barriers.