Peeter Torop

Who is Peeter Torop?

Peeter Torop is an Estonian semiotician. Following Roman Jakobson, he expanded the scope of the semiotic study of translation to include intratextual, intertextual, and extratextual translation and stressing the productivity of the notion of translation in general semiotics. He is a co-editor of the journal Sign Systems Studies, the oldest international semiotic periodical, the chairman of the Estonian Semiotics Association and professor of semiotics of culture at Tartu University.

He is widely known in translation studies above all for his book Total translation, published in Russian in 1995, and in Italian in 2000 and 2010, edited by Bruno Osimo.