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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

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Title: Implicit Aspects of Culture in Source and Target Language Contexts
Paper URL: http://www.sil.org/siljot/2011/1/928474543392/siljot2011-1-02.pdf
Author: Thomas G. Matthews
Institution: SIL International
Author: Catherine Rountree
Institution: Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics
Author: Steve Nicolle
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Institution: Africa International University
Linguistic Field: Pragmatics; Translation
Abstract: In the context of Bible translation, the concept of implicit information has typically been constrained to cognitive information that was assumed to be known by the source language audience. In this paper implicit information is expanded to include both source and target language contexts because the target audience also brings a wealth of ‘information’ to the translation and interpretation of target language Scriptures. In addition, a prototypical model of culture is applied to more comprehensively explicate both surface and deep structural aspects of culture, i.e., knowledge, practices, beliefs, values, world view, image schema, etc., that were either assumed by the original authors for their audience or are encountered in the interpretation by the target audience.
Type: Individual Paper
Status: Completed
Publication Info: Journal of Translation, Volume 7, Number 1 (2011)
URL: http://www.sil.org/siljot/2011/1/928474543392/siljot2011-1-02.pdf


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