Bible Translation Basics: Communicating Scripture in a

Bible Translation Basics: Communicating Scripture in a Relevant Way (Textbook)

Over the past thirty years, scholars have made significant advances in understanding how human communication functions. They have moved from looking for meaning in texts alone to seeing texts as providing clues that lead hearers to discover the speakerâ€™s intended meaning. Hearers use other inputs as wellâ€”things they already know, information from the speech environmentâ€”as they search to understand not only what the words of the text say but also what the speaker is communicating. All this has significant implications for Bible translation. Bible Translation Basics accomplishes two things: 1) it expresses these theoretical developments in communication at a basic level in non-technical language, and 2) it applies these developments to the task of Bible translation in very practical ways. Tried and tested around the world, people with a secondary school education or higher are able to understand how communication works and apply those insights to communicating Scripture to their audiences. Bible Translation Basics helps translators work with language communities to determine the kind of Scripture product(s) that are most relevant for them, given their abilities and preferences.
Country USA
Manufacturer SIL International
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2012-01-13
Format Kindle eBook

Bible Translation Basics: Communicating Scripture in a Relevant Way (Textbook)