Voyelles (English spelling)

Japanese: 《Voyelles》(英語表記)Voyelles
Voyelles (English spelling)

… Inter-semiotic translation also makes it possible to speak of translation in a broader sense. For example, the French symbolist poet A. Rimbaud said that "A is black, E is white, I is red, U is green, O is indigo" (the opening line of "Voyelles"), which can be considered analogously as a translation of the vowel system into the color system, and the same is true when expressing the content of artistic works such as music and paintings in words, or vice versa. It is true that in the case of this broader translation, the correspondence between the symbolic systems in which the substitution takes place is arbitrary, so it cannot be placed on the same level as the three types of inter-semiotic translation mentioned above, but considering that this analogy reveals subtle aspects of human conscious activity, it cannot be dismissed as meaningless or nonsensical. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Voyelles" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… 記号系間翻訳は,さらに,より広義の翻訳について語ることを可能にする。たとえば,フランスの象徴主義詩人A.ランボーは〈A(アー)は黒,E(ウー)は白,I(イー)は赤,U(ユー)は緑,O(オー)は藍色〉(《母音Voyelles》の冒頭部分)であるというが,これも類比的に母音体系の,色彩体系への翻訳と考えることが可能であるし,音楽,絵画といった芸術作品の内容を言葉で言い表す場合,あるいはその逆も同様である。たしかに,この広義の翻訳の場合には,置換えが行われる記号系間の対応の設定は恣意的であるから,前記3種の記号系間翻訳と同列に並べるわけにはいかないだろうが,この類比によって人間の意識活動の微妙な側面が明らかになってくることを考えれば,決して無意味ででたらめなこととして退けるわけにはいかない。…

※「《Voyelles》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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