the constraints and affordances of the medium involved

Chinese translation: 所涉及媒体的适应性与局限性

10:08 Jun 28, 2007
English to Chinese translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Philosophy / Semiotics/Linguistics
English term or phrase: the constraints and affordances of the medium involved
The context:

The term 'medium' is used in a variety of ways by different theorists, and may include such broad categories as speech and writing or print and broadcasting or relate to specific technical forms within the mass media (radio, television, newspapers, magazines, books, photographs, films and records) or the media of interpersonal communication (telephone, letter, fax, e-mail, video-conferencing, computer-based chat systems). Some theorists classify media according to the 'channels' involved (visual, auditory, tactile and so on) (Nöth 1995, 175). Human experience is inherently multisensory, and every representation of experience is subject to {the constraints and affordances of the medium involved}. Every medium is constrained by the channels which it utilizes. For instance, even in the very flexible medium of language 'words fail us' in attempting to represent some experiences, and we have no way at all of representing smell or touch with conventional media. Different media and genres provide different frameworks for representing experience, facilitating some forms of expression and inhibiting others. The differences between media lead Emile Benveniste to argue that the 'first principle' of semiotic systems is that they are not 'synonymous': 'we are not able to say "the same thing"' in systems based on different units (in Innis 1986, 235) in contrast to Hjelmslev, who asserted that 'in practice, language is a semiotic into which all other semiotics may be translated' (cited in Genosko 1994, 62).


The question: the contstraints and affordances of the medium involved (8 words --- amazing, within 10 word!)
Wenjer Leuschel (X)
Taiwan
Local time: 05:39
Chinese translation:所涉及媒体的适应性与局限性
Explanation:
{所牵涉的媒体之限制与容许}

Wenjer, what you have is very good.
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wherestip
United States
Local time: 16:39
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Thank you very much, Steve!
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所涉及媒体的适应性与局限性


Explanation:
{所牵涉的媒体之限制与容许}

Wenjer, what you have is very good.

wherestip
United States
Local time: 16:39
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in ChineseChinese
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you very much, Steve!
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks. Your phrasing is fantastic, especially the rearrangement of the two terms in Chinese.


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