Proposes and elaborates on the development of an international terminology for efficient exchange of specialized information. UNESCO is concerned with establishing principles for a world-wide system called UNISIST. (MSE)

Discusses the problem of dictionaries' treatment of phrasal verbs and their companions, verbs plus prepositions. (AM)

Lists 45 references dating from 1955 to 1972, relating to lexicography, monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, and translation. (AM)

About 135 references are listed concerning lexicography, translation, semantics, and dictionaries. (AM)

Reviews and discusses the structure of D.F. Robinson's "Manual for Bilingual Dictionaries" (Sanata Ana, 1969, 201p.). (AM)

Presents 27 international terms, including neologisms, relating to electricity and electronics, in order to provide translators with patterns for adopting and/or modifying new terms. (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…

An attempt to demonstrate the versatility needed by the translator of medical and pharmaceutical documents. There are lists of homonyms and false cognates, particularly in English, French and German, which would be useful to translators generally. A selected bibliography is included. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

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…

A description of the possibilities of directly interrogating a multi-lingual terminology data bank via video display units in the TEAM Program Systems. The purpose of the data bank is to give machine aid to translators and to relieve them of time-consuming routine work. (AMH)

A discussion of legal and administrative language, and the necessity for accurate translation of this language in the field of international relations. Topics treated are: characteristic features of legal and administrative terminology; the interpretation of it; and the technique of translating legal and administrative texts. (AMH)

The English language has adopted a large number of foreign words and apparently has a tradition of readily accepting new words of foreign origin. The following points are discussed: simple transliteration, authorized translation, the danger of analogies and foreign words currently not accepted in English. (AMH)

Latin America is the most widely used of the terms, but a more precise designation, at least in scholarly usage, would be useful. Distinctions are made on the basis of language in favor of the terms in the title. A bibliographical note for further reference is appended. (AMH)

A summary of the study of false cognates by Koessler and Derocquigny. The following topics are studied: The origin and meaning of the term; a classification according to monosemy or polysemy; false cognates on the multilingual level and in language families; and extensions of meaning. (Text is in French.) (AMH)