Die Afrikaanse Protestantse Akademie Biblioteek

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fundamental principles of translation: Literal and Idiomatic Translations; Fidelity in Translation; Implicit and Explicit Information -- Semantic features of words and their translation: Analyzing the components of meaning of a Word; An Analysis of Run and Bungalow; The nature of multiple senses; Translating multiple senses; The nature of metaphor and simile; Translating metaphor and simile; Concordance; Collocational clashes; Lexical equivalence across languages - when concepts are shared - When things or events are unknown in the RL
Multiple functions of certain Grammatical structures: Multiple functions of grammatical structures; Rhetorical questions; The Genitive construction
Toward an analysis of semantic structure: Propositions and semantic structure; Relations between propositions; Analyzing and displaying the larger semantic units; Analyzing and displaying the propositions
Appendixes: Some further considerations relating to idiomatic translations; An experiment on the use of Primary senses by native speakers; The use and significance of OU and ME in questions; A discussion of some complicated Genitives; A propositional display of Philemon