Semioethics, Translatability, Life

This book discusses translation and translatability from the perspective of semioethics (Petrilli and Ponzio, Semioetica, 2003, 2024), which involves the relation between signs, values and responsibility in human semiosis. Reflecting on signification, expression, and translation in our global communication world, it explores the signs of total interconnection and interdependency bonding all lifeforms in open-ended translational processes across the planet. As a special bend in global semiotics, translation semioethics explores the convergence between semiosis and life relatedly to values and the inextricable I-other intrigue, and to the search for sense in alterity-oriented translational processes. Vital translation among signs in the great biosphere is the condition for human semiosis across sign systems of all types, verbal and nonverbal. Drawing on a variety of different disciplines and fields, this book is of interest to readers in the human, social and natural sciences, particularly the sign sciences, translation studies, digital culture, health and peace studies.