A listing of the thirteen principal organizations concerned in some way with terminology in the French-speaking world. Each organization is described briefly. A schema of inter-relationships is given. A list of addresses is included. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

Discusses the category of back-translating which translates back to the source language to assure both integrity of message and integrity of form. Describes translation types which illustrate increasing degrees of reconstructive translation. Suggests that the translation gains in status at the expense of the original and upsets some rules of…

The author first describes the format of the Bible, then points out 180 references to disabilities in the Bible, of which 46 are negative in the King James Version but described with less negative words in later translations. (MC)

Presents a guide of basic bibliographical sources of English translations in the humanities and the social sciences. The sources fall into the following categories: (1) general bibliographies of translations, (2) humanities, (3) social sciences, (4) national bibliographies, and (5) library catalogs. (SED)

This manual, written in Spanish, contains a linguistic study to show that all sciences, whether economic or social, technical or humanistic in nature have a direct impact on our terminology. Starting with general linguistic considerations on technical terms in both English and Spanish, the study advances to semantics used in symbolic language. It…

Part of a continuing series. (VM)

Part of a continuing bibliographical series on lexicographical information. (VM)

Study investigated bilingual subjects' perceptions of connotative differences between concepts in English and French using a form of the semantic differential in which the scales were derived from Cattell's 16 personality factors. Results show no significant differences in affective meaning between concepts within or across languages but…

Discusses need for Nigerian translators and interpreters to perform adequately in the languages worked in as well as to understand nonverbal and paralinguistic elements of communication and their influence on national unity. (BK)

Presents a model of interpretation, parsing and error recovery in simultaneous translation using two experts and two amateur German-English bilingual translators orally translating from English to German. Argues that the translator first comprehends the text in English and divides it into meaningful units before translating. Study also…

Gives some examples of linguistic borrowing in translatin Quebec statutes from French to English. (AM)