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Peer reviewedCreswell, Thomas J. – Babel: International Journal of Translation, 1977
An editorialized report of data accumulated in a study of current American practice in the treatment of problems of usage in general purpose dictionaries. Their descriptive objectivity is characterized as "that of the blind men examining the elephant." Such practices reveal little change from that of Samuel Johnson's 1755 English…
Descriptors: Definitions, Dictionaries, Language Patterns, Language Usage
Peer reviewedDarbelnet, Jean – Babel: International Journal of Translation, 1978
Examines the differences in the way French and English treat contrastive stress and comparatives, with implications for translation. (AM)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, French, Grammar
Peer reviewedSopher, H. – Babel: International Journal of Translation, 1974
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Contrastive Linguistics, English, Expressive Language
Linguistique structural et theorie de la traduction (Structural Linguistics and Translation Theory).
Peer reviewedLortholary, Bernard – Babel: International Journal of Translation, 1979
Discusses the translator's need for help from structural linguistics and the inadequacy of the response of linguistics to so-called translation problems. Two German-French syntax problems are given as examples and a solution is offered from a translator's point of view. (AMH)
Descriptors: French, German, Interdisciplinary Approach, Interpreters
