The Bible Translator: Volume 21, Issue 1

Explicit information is openly conveyed in the words, sentences, and intonations used; implicit information is that which does not need to be made explicit because it is known to be shared already by both parties and is therefore understood by both to be present. The translator must ask himself three questions. (1) What information did the author make explicit, and why? (2) What information was implicit for the original readers, and from what sources did they derive it? (3) What are the practical consequences of this for translation? View Less

Examines the role of national translators and the missionary translator as teamwork in the task of translation. The teams should identify the strengths of individual participants, the role each participant plays in the process (translators, secretary, consultants, editorial committee, translation checkers) and the process of evaluation by native speakers. View Less

Critically reviews Powlison’s article in The Bible Translator, 1968, 19(2):74–91. He has overlooked three dimensions of the problem of orthography: (1) psycholinguistic factors; (2) omission versus substitution; and (3) methods of testing and teaching. View Less

Suggests a method for organizing and comparing relevant data to determine significant differences between source and receptor cultures with the result of discovering the closest equivalent trait between the two cultures. View Less

Pronouns in Greek are notoriously ambiguous. Surveys the various uses of the pronouns, including emphasis, relative clauses, “other,” and textual variations. Special problems with respect to translation are discussed: inclusive and exclusive “we”, honorific pronouns and Bantu classes. View Less

In Vol. 20, No. 2, April 1969, we printed ‘A Black English Translation of John 3: I-21 with Grammatical Annotations’. It is instructive to observe reactions to sub-standard English forms; we are, therefore, printing an exchange of correspondence between Mr. Gordon T. Fish, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.A., and Dr. Walter A. Wolfram, one of the two authors of the article.-Editor. View Less