14.2338, Books: Translation: Nida

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Subject: 14.2338, Books: Translation: Nida

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Date:  Wed, 03 Sep 2003 16:35:08 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Fascinated by Languages: Nida

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Date:  Wed, 03 Sep 2003 16:35:08 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Fascinated by Languages: Nida

Title: Fascinated by Languages

Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/, http://www.benjamins.nl		

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=Z_119

Author: Eugene A. Nida,

Hardback: ISBN: 1588114082, Pages: vi, 157 pp., Price: USD 65.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027226016, Pages: vi, 157 pp., Price: EUR 65.00

Abstract:

In this unique account of 60 years of Bible translation, Eugene Nida
sets out his journey with a personal touch. On the way, he reveals the
importance of a solid knowledge of Greek and Hebrew as well as of the
historical settings in which the Bible was created, in order to render
effective translations. Through his story we get to know Nida's views
on translations through the ages, in different cultures and narrative
traditions, right through to the 21st Century.  This book is in the
first place a study in anthropological linguistics that tells the rich
history of Bible translation, the Bible Societies, translator
training, and cultural translation problems.

Eugene A. Nida (1914) went to UCLA (Phi Beta Kappa, 1936) and the
University of Southern California (Helenistic Greek, 1939). He taught
at the Summer Institute of Linguistics from 1937-1952 and is past
president of the Linguistic Society of America (1968).  >From
1943-1981 he was language consultant for the American Bible Society
and the United Bible Societies which led him to study many cultures
across 96 countries and to lecture in over a hundred universities and
colleges to this day.  His published works include Bible Translating
(1946), Customs and Cultures (1954), Toward a Science of Translating
(1964), Religion across Cultures (1968), The Sociolinguistics of
Intercultural Communication (1996) and Translation in Context (2002).

Table of contents

Fascinated by languages  1

Part I. In more than ninety countries  9
Travel surprises  11
Africa South of the Sahara  13
Asia  25
Latin America  46
North America  53
Eastern Europe  58
Western Europe  62

Part II: Bible Translation, Texts and Interpretations  67
Bible translation  69
Bible as literary genre  81
Texts and interpretations  87
Specifc Bible translation problems  117

Part III. A Personal Touch  133
Who am I?  135
Selective bibliography  145
Index  153

Lingfield(s): Translation

Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)

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