{"product_id":"speaking-in-tongues","title":"Speaking in Tongues","description":"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is a book about languages, what languages can and what they cannot do.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this dialogue between a Nobel Laureate and a leading translator, provocative ideas emerge about the evolution of language and the challenge of translation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\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 Dim pulos - explores questions that have constantly plagued writers and translators, now more than ever. Among them-\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow can a translator liberate meanings imprisoned in the language of a text?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhy is the masculine form dominant in gendered languages while the feminine is treated as a deviation?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow should we counter the spread of monolingualism?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eShould a translator censor racist or misogynistic language?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDoes mathematics tell the truth about everything?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e In 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.","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Speaking in Tongues","offer_id":44541591781573,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-78730-513-7.jpg?v=1741655696","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/speaking-in-tongues","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}