Examines three recent French translations of Louis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark." (PMP)

An international survey of conditions and practices involving translators deals with the following points: (1) change in the legal status and material situation of translators since 1968; (2) translators' associations; (3) translators' training, and (4) encouraging translation of contemporary works. (CK)

A brief paper noting some of the great Japanese literary translators who rendered Western and other foreign classics into the Japanese language. (CK)

Lists certain differences in structure and vocabulary between the French of Canada and that of France. (Text is in French.) (PP)

Translations of the Hungarian poet Petofi are examined in a discussion of the pros and cons of direct and indirect translation. (AM)

The purpose of this article is to show that "sha" and "sha-si" are not identical and that there is no perfect correspondence between either word in Chinese and "to kill" in English. It is suggested that the closest Chinese equivalent is "nong-si." (Author/RM)

THIS REPORT SETS FORTH IN DETAIL THE PROCEDURES OF THE INVESTIGATION MADE TO PRODUCE A "BASIC SPOKEN GERMAN WORD LIST," PUBLISHED IN 1964 BY PRENTICE-HALL, INCORPORATED. THE WORD LIST WAS PRODUCED TO PROVIDE BASIC SOURCE MATERIAL FOR THE MOVEMENT SUPPORTED BY THE NATIONAL DEFENSE EDUCATION ACT TO TEACH THE SPOKEN LANGUAGE AND THE RELATED…

RESEARCH IN SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS OF RUSSIAN, WHICH WAS DEVELOPED IN A PROGRAM FOR COMPUTER-AIDED RUSSIAN-ENGLISH TRANSLATION, IS DESCRIBED. THE CORPUS CONSISTED OF 15 RUSSIAN MATHEMATICAL ARTICLES. THE THEORY USED IS THE "FULCRUM" APPROACH OF BUNKER-RAMO, BUT THE COMPUTER IMPLEMENTATION HAS DEVELOPED ALONG DISTINCT LINES. THREE TYPES OF…

The policies of the United Nations with regard to the six official languages have left holes in the fabric of international cooperation. Maintaining language services in all six languages has proved to be an impossibility because of the scarcity of trained interpreters and translators between, for instance, Chinese and Arabic. English, French, and…

In this paper the author contends that no useful results can be obtained if contrastive analysis is confined to formal correspondence: it is not enough to compare languages as to the presence or absence of corresponding systems and as to the similarities or dissimilarities in the distribution of the terms of the contrasted systems. Formal…

An algorithmic language (ALGAMS) was proposed by the group on programing automation for medium type machines. The language is a subset of ALGOL-60. The paper discusses the syntax and semantics of ALGAMS. (Author/GO)

The thesis of the present dissertation is that the Fulani reference system cannot be explained by grammatical rules alone, or by studying isolated sentences, but that one must examine the entire structure of language in context, and that given the semantic inventory plus the semotactics and the grammatical inventory plus the grammar one can not…

This article explains the difference between Spanish "que" and "de" as translations of "than.""Que" is used in comparisons involving two different entities, while "de" is required when reference is to a single entity. (CHK)

This dictionary supplement consists of lists of English words with their Spanish translations, and short entries of both Spanish and English abbreviations and their translations. (CHK)

Examines previous studies in an attempt to obtain a general picture of the foreign language problem in science and technology and to identify the best means of combating it. (PF)