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  2. J. C. Catford - Wikipedia

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    Catford could identify where people were from exclusively through their speech. His expertise – which included formal phonetics , the aerodynamic and physiological production of speech, phonetic peculiarities in speech, and an astounding ability to reproduce words, and even speeches, backwards – led him to be invited to the University of ...

  3. Translation studies - Wikipedia

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    In 1965, J. C. Catford theorized translation from a linguistic perspective. [5] In the 1960s and early 1970s, the Czech scholar Jiří Levý and the Slovak scholars Anton Popovič and František Miko worked on the stylistics of literary translation. [6]

  4. Lilias Armstrong - Wikipedia

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    In 1998, Scottish phonetician J. C. Catford wrote that he believed this book to still be the "best practical introduction to French phonetics". [46] Chapter XVII of The Phonetics of French was about intonation, [120] but her main work on the topic was the 1934 book Studies in French Intonation co-written with her colleague Hélène Coustenoble ...

  5. Ubykh phonology - Wikipedia

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    The laminal and apical postalveolar series are more accurately transcribed as /ʃ̻/ and /ʃ̺/, respectively. There is no standard IPA notation for the laminal-closed postalveolar series. They are transcribed ŝ , ẑ , t͡ŝ , etc. by Catford, or sometimes as ʆ , ʓ , t͜ʆ , etc.

  6. List of linguists - Wikipedia

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    A linguist in the academic sense is a person who studies natural language (an academic discipline known as linguistics).Ambiguously, the word is sometimes also used to refer to a polyglot (one who knows several languages), a translator/interpreter (especially in the military), or a grammarian (a scholar of grammar), but these uses of the word are distinct (and one does not have to be ...

  7. UNESCO Collection of Representative Works - Wikipedia

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    The UNESCO Collection of Representative Works (or UNESCO Catalogue of Representative Works) was a UNESCO translation project that was active for about 57 years, from 1948 to about 2005. The project's purpose was to translate masterpieces of world literature , primarily from a lesser known language into a more international language such as ...

  8. List of literary works by number of translations - Wikipedia

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    J. R. R. Tolkien: 1937: 59: English: 35 The Good Soldier Švejk: Jaroslav Hašek: 1923: 58 [40] Czech: 36 The Tirukkural: Valluvar: c. 300 BCE – c. 450 CE See Dating the Tirukkural: 57 [41] languages, with 350 translations in total: Old Tamil: 37 The Lord of the Rings: J. R. R. Tolkien: 1954–1955: 57 [42] languages, with 87 translations in ...

  9. Translations of One Thousand and One Nights - Wikipedia

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    In 1926–1932 a lavishly decorated 12-volume edition of J. C. Mardrus' translation, titled Le livre des mille nuits et une nuit, appeared.Soviet and Russian scholar Isaak Filshtinsky, however, considered Mardrus' translation inferior to others due to presence of chunks of text, which Mardrus conceived himself to satisfy the tastes of his time. [8]