The Bible Translator: Volume 10, Issue 2

The criteria and principles involved in developing a writing system adapted in a practical way to the orthography tradition of the area where it is to be used are five in number: maximum motivation for the learner, maximum representation of speech, maximum ease of learning, maximum transfer, and maximum ease of reproduction. A suggested procedure follows the elaboration of these principles. The underlying assumption is that a writing system is for all the speakers of a language, not only for church members. View Less

Presents in some detail the work of the Summer Institute of Linguistics and of the Wycliffe Bible Translators. Their driving principles are thoroughly evangelical, and their missionary activity is complementary. Mr. Cameron Townsend began the work formally in 1934 which presently follows two lines of development: field work and training school. View Less

Reprints the Taylorian Lecture of 1931 as one of the important documents on the entire problem of translation. Though the problems dealt with in the lecture relate directly to secular literature, the basic principles are equally applicable to the translating of Scripture. This is regarded as a classic on the principles and problems of translation. View Less