This paper argues that the challenge of intercultural communication has often been overlooked in discussions of indigenous language literacy in Africa. The omission continues despite the fact that literacy practices in Africa have often served as a means of intercultural communication, especially among highly educated Africans. Proposals for the…

Chapter I, an introduction to machine translation of languages, contains a simplified description of electronic computing machines, and a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of machine translation research. A historical background of machine translation of languages is given, together with a description of various machine translation…

This report deals with advances in linguistic analysis and programing. The theoretical theses for this work were presented in the first annual report. This second report concentrates on progress in the descriptive analysis of German and English, and on computer programs which have been developed during the year. Linguistic work during the period…

This study is based on 72 children's and young adult books that met the criteria of being about Muslims and published and circulated here in the U.S. They can be divided into the varied genres as 49 contemporary realistic fiction, 6 historical fiction, and 17 autobiographies, biographies, and memoirs. In-depth reading and coding were used to…

Translation skills require the ability to interpret information from a source language into the native tongue without distortion of emotional or written content. A broad knowledge of several subject areas, plus schooling in a special translator-training program, are prerequisites for a career in translation. Nonliterary translation offers the most…

This is a list and definition of recently formulated abbreviations in French for energy units. This article is meant primarily to be of benefit to translators. (AM)

The new English version of the first five volumes of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia is reviewed. (PF)

A BEGINNER'S GUIDE HAS BEEN PREPARED FOR THE SUBJECT OF JAPANESE BIBLIOGRAPHIES. IT WAS DESIGNED FOR THREE KINDS OF USERS--(1) THE STUDENT IN SOME DISCIPLINE OF THE HUMANITIES WHO WISHES TO CONDUCT RESEARCH ON JAPAN AND MAKE USE OF JAPANESE LANGUAGE MATERIALS, (2) THE STUDENT OR LIBRARIAN WHO KNOWS NO JAPANESE BUT WISHES INFORMATION ABOUT JAPAN,…

THIS DICTIONARY OF IRAQI ARABIC IS BASED, IN FORMAT, ON THE ENGLISH-GERMAN SECTION OF THE BILINGUAL GERMAN AND ENGLISH "DICTIONARY OF EVERYDAY USAGE," PUBLISHED BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY. THE AIM OF THIS WORK HAS BEEN TO PRESENT, FOR THE FIRST TIME, A DICTIONARY FOR ENGLISH SPEAKERS CONTAINING THE BASIC VOCABULARY OF THE IRAQI DIALECT.…

THE ENGLISH ENTRIES IN THIS DICTIONARY OF MOROCCAN ARABIC ARE BASED ON THE ENGLISH-GERMAN SECTION OF THE BILINGUAL GERMAN AND ENGLISH "DICTIONARY OF EVERYDAY USAGE," PUBLISHED BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY. A NUMBER OF CHANGES WERE NECESSARY, BOTH IN FORM AND CONTENT, TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AMERICAN AND MOROCCAN…

THIS DICTIONARY IS BASED ON THE DIALECT OF DAMASCUS, AS SPOKEN BY EDUCATED MUSLIMS. DAMASCUS OCCUPIES A CENTRAL POSITION IN MORE THAN THE OBVIOUS GEOGRAPHICAL SENSE. THE CITY IS A MAJOR ADMINISTRATIVE CENTER OF THE AREA AND, HISTORICALLY, AN IMPORTANT SEAT OF ISLAMIC CULTURE AND LEARNING. A NUMBER OF POLITICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL, AND GEOGRAPHICAL…

THE PRESENT STUDY IS A TRANSLATION OF THE WORK "STROI ARABSKOGO YAZYKA" BY THE EMINENT RUSSIAN LINGUIST AND SEMITICS SCHOLAR, N.Y. YUSHMANOV. IT DEALS CONCISELY WITH THE POSITION OF ARABIC AMONG THE SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND THE RELATION OF THE LITERARY (CLASSICAL) LANGUAGE TO THE VARIOUS MODERN SPOKEN DIALECTS, AND PRESENTS A CONDENSED BUT…

THIS BOOK OF MEDIEVAL POETRY FROM INDIA WAS PREPARED TO GIVE THE LANGUAGE STUDENT A GLIMPSE INTO BOTH A STYLE AND LANGUAGE NECESSARY FOR A WELL-ROUNDED KNOWLEDGE OF HINDI, AND INTO A CORPUS OF POETRY CONSIDERED TO BE MOST IMPORTANT IN THE HINDI TRADITION. THE FORMAT OF THE BOOK WITH TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS ON FACING PAGES WAS DESIGNED FOR EASE IN…

About 135 references are listed concerning lexicography, translation, semantics, and dictionaries. (AM)

Presents 27 international terms, including neologisms, relating to electricity and electronics, in order to provide translators with patterns for adopting and/or modifying new terms. (AM)