Fascinated by languages / Eugene A. Nida.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nida, Eugene A. (Eugene Albert), 1914-2011.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nida, Eugene A. (Eugene Albert), 1914-2011.

Nida, Eugene A.

Bible--Translating.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (163 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2003.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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).

Contents:

Fascinated by Languages

Title page

LCC page

Contents

Fascinated by languages

Part I: In more than ninety countries

Travel surprises

Africa South of the Sahara

Asia

Latin America

North America

Eastern Europe

Western Europe

Part II: Bible translation, texts and interpretations

Bible translation

Bible as literary genre

Texts and interpretations

Specific Bible translation problems

Part III: A personal touch

Who am I?

Selective Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-151) and index.

ISBN:

9786612161148

9781282161146

1282161148

9789027296412

9027296413

OCLC:

290516343