This article discusses the neglect of "metaphor" by translation theorists, and the translation implications of "metaphor.""Metaphor" is defined, the process of translating it is reviewed and a number of examples of metaphors translated from Hebrew to English are given. (CLK)

Discusses the art of translating literary texts, including the relationship of the translation to the original, linguistic thought with regard to translation, and various translation theories. (AM)

Describes the curriculum for training professional literary translators used at the Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow. (AM)

About 75 bibliographic references are provided, dealing chiefly with translation theory and reference books, and arranged by year of publication (1955-1978). (AM)

Presents an analysis of Russian compound word structure, dividing the compound terms into four categories based on word-formation structure and showing how these four categories may be translated into English. (AM)

Discusses the importance of the following factors in translation: (1) embedded communication events; (2) the circumstances of the production of a text; (3) the response of receptors to a text; (4) the translator's role in producing a translation; and (5) the response of receptors to a translation. (AM)

Discusses the primacy of thought over speech, and "semantic translation" vs "communicative translation," relating the former to thought, and the latter to speech. (AM)

Examines the question of whether translation is possible, relating it to the question of linguistic and cultural constraints on translation, and to the question of the relationship between language and thought. Recommendations are made for the improvement of the study of translating. (AM)

Examines the differences in the way French and English treat contrastive stress and comparatives, with implications for translation. (AM)

Discusses paronyms, with reference to translation, and related forms such as synonyms, polysemes, and false cognates. (AM)

Examines the professional status and social benefits of the translator in European countries. (AM)

Discusses the process and problems involved in organizing bilingual or multilingual dictionaries. (AM)

Provides a list of international medical and pharmaceutical terminology in three stages of development: (1) established international terms; (2) neologisms in the course of unification; and (3) recent neologisms in the course of unification. (AM)

Terms for new concepts and modernized notions are being constantly produced in the major world languages. These terms--"neologisms"--have to be rendered in other languages, thus enriching these languages. A program for research and the production of glossaries is suggested to translators and national translation societies. (AMH)

An outline of the similarities and differences between literary and technical translations. A further distinction is made between technical-scientific and sociological translations. Sociological translators' training must penetrate into the socio-cultural, cultural-anthropological and historical aspects of the given country because analysis of…