{"product_id":"speaking-in-tongues-1","title":"J M Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos: Speaking in Tongues [2025] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is a book about languages, what languages can and what they cannot do.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this dialogue between a Nobel Laureate and a leading translator, provocative ideas emerge about the evolution of language and the challenge of translation.\u003cbr\u003eLanguage, historically speaking, has always been slippery. Two dictionaries provide two different maps of the universe: which one is true, or are both false? \u003ci\u003eSpeaking in Tongues\u003c\/i\u003e - taking the form of a dialogue between Nobel-Laureate novelist J. M. Coetzee and eminent translator Mariana Dimopulos - explores questions that have constantly plagued writers and translators, now more than ever. Among them:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow can a translator liberate meanings imprisoned in the language of a text?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy is the masculine form dominant in gendered languages while the feminine is treated as a deviation?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow should we counter the spread of monolingualism?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShould a translator censor racist or misogynistic language?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDoes mathematics tell the truth about everything?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the tradition of Walter Benjamin's seminal essay 'The Task of the Translator', \u003ci\u003eSpeaking in Tongues\u003c\/i\u003e emerges as an engaging and accessible work of philosophy, shining a light on some of the most important linguistic and philological issues of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"J M Coetzee And Mariana Dimópulos \u0026 Dimopulos, Mariana","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50766038630739,"sku":"9781787305137","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/j-m-coetzee-and-mariana-dimopulos-dimopulos-mariana-j-m-coetzee-and-mariana-dimopulos-speaking-in-tongues-2025-hardback-9781787305137-1155472742.jpg?v=1744416926","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/speaking-in-tongues-1","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}