"""Lost in Translation"": Language, Meaning, Disruption"

Budd, John M.

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Title

"""Lost in Translation"": Language, Meaning, Disruption"

Author(s)

Budd, John M.

Issue Date

2015-03-15

Keyword(s)

• communication studies
• history
• theory and philosophy of information
• qualitative research methods

Abstract

In this paper the problematic nature of use and appropriation of the language used for one set of purposes by those who have other purposes in mind will be discussed. The popular notions of paradigm and entropy are explored as one discipline seeks to borrow words, terms, and signs from other (frequently more mature and concrete disciplines. At times the original intention is salvaged, but frequently other meaning is substituted—deliberately or not—in the process of appropriation. There are examples of a discipline adopting terms originating in another one, and the challenges that ensue.

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iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2015 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

English

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