Christopher Kelen - Notes

 

1. In a similar vein Auden writes 'to read is to translate' (Auden 1956:9). Return to text
 

2. This unfinalisability we may regard as being in the nature of the circularity of the process of semiosis. As Eco suggests, in his essay on Peirce, 'Semiosis explains itself by itself: this continual circularity is the normal process of signification' (Eco 1984:198). Return to text
 

3. 'Everything occurs in language as if the mind [esprit] whose nature we will have to render more precise' (Merleau-Ponty, 1979:90). Return to text
 

4. This is the recovered naturalness to which Paul Friedrich refers in 'Polytropy' (in Fernandez, 1991:26) Return to text
 

5. And surely all language is foreign to the extent that it depends on the circle I stand in with the Other. It is in these terms that Sartre can write that 'the fact of expression is in the stealing of thought.' (1989:374) and that I constitute my language as a phenomenon of flight. (1989:373) Return to text
 

6. We know that 'chunks' (unanalysed phrases able to be employed automatically), because of their ease of use, begin to be learned early on, that consciousness of system is later abstract from their use. Errors made in the process of applying idiomatic or unanalysed phrases are among the most common and 'poetic' mistakes by non-natives and children. Return to text