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  An Encyclopaedia of Translation
The compilation of this encyclopaedia was prompted by the growth of translation as an academic subject in Hong Kong, this busy entrepot city where the transfer between the Chinese and English languages spans all aspects of life.
At the same time translation has been attracting increasing attention universally among students of the humanities for its historical role in introducing and relating one culture to another, and its ways and means of coping with the seemingly impossible task of accurately reflecting one "thought-world" in terms of another.
Hence this encyclopaedia serves a dual purpose in addressing both local and universal concerns: the language-specific entries relate to the interaction between the Chinese-speaking and English-speaking worlds, while Western knowledge and experience are also drawn on for topics general to all translation studies.
www.kwintessential.co.uk /translation/book/encyclopaedia.html   (331 words)

  
  English language
Today’s English is the continuation of the language of the 5th-century Germanic invaders of Britain.
When English became again (14th cent.) the language of the upper class, the capital was London, and the new standard (continued in Modern Standard English) was a London dialect.
English vocabulary has also been greatly expanded by the blending of existing words (e.g., smog from smoke and fog) and by back-formations (e.g., burgle from burglar), whereby a segment of an existing word is treated as an affix and dropped, resulting in a new word, usually with a related meaning.
www.orbilat.com /Encyclopaedia/E/English_language.html   (961 words)

  
 Encyclopedia [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
English has lingua franca status in many parts of the world, due to the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the United Kingdom and later the United States.
Encyclopaedias were published in ScotlandScotland (Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country or nation and former independent kingdom of northwest Europe, and one of the four constituent parts of the United Kingdom.
Encyclopaedia MetropolitanaIt professed to give sciences and systematic arts entire and in their natural sequence, as shown in the introductory treatise on method by the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
www.wikimirror.com /encyclopedia   (13785 words)

  
 Encyclopedia - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Encyclopedias can be general, containing articles on topics in many different fields (the English language Encyclopædia Britannica and German Brockhaus are well-known examples), or they can specialize in a particular field (such as an encyclopedia of medicine or philosophy).
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the spelling with the ae or æ is "pseudo-Greek" and "an erroneous form (said to be a false reading) occurring in MSS.
The Oxford English Dictionary notes that the æ is not found in the original Greek enkyklios paideia for "encyclical education", described as "the circle of arts and sciences considered by the Greeks as essential to a liberal education".
www.free-definition.com /Encyclopedia.html   (1539 words)

  
 Encyclopaedia
An Encyclopaedia of Occultism An Encyclopaedia of Occultism is an public domain in the United States.
British Encyclopaedia The British Encyclopaedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences was published in 1809 in six 8vo vol...
Encyclopaedia Metropolitana The Encyclopaedia Metropolitana was published in London, 1845, 4to, 28 vols., and was issued...
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/encyclopaedia.html   (244 words)

  
 Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Encyclopaedias are essentially derivative from what has gone before, and particularly in the 19th century piracy was common.
The encyclopedia's hierarchical structure and evolving nature is particularly adaptable to a disk-based or on-line computer format, and all major printed encyclopedias had moved to this method of delivery by the end of the 20th century.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the spelling with the ae or æ is "pseudo-Greek" and "an erroneous form (said to be a false reading) occurring in MSS of Quintilian, Pliny, and Galen".
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/encyclopedia_1   (1456 words)

  
 The Primary English Encyclopaedia: The Heart of the Curriculum
Hard though it is for a mere visitor to primary schools to judge, this encyclopaedia seems to offer an extraordinary demonstration of the range of concerns and information primary teachers must track.
In her preliminary note on how to use the encyclopaedia, Mallett emphasizes that it is a 'first port of call', and a high proportion of the entries have further reading referenced.
In its sheer organisation of material, its accessibility and its accuracy, the Primary English Encyclopaedia is a tour de force.
www.nawe.co.uk /metadot/index.pl?id=32155&isa=DBRow&op=show_printer_friendly   (569 words)

  
 XV. Scholars, Antiquaries and Bibliographers: Bibliography. Vol. 12. The Romantic Revival. The Cambridge History of ...
A.D. The Bacchae of Euripides in English verse, Cambridge, 1871.
Founder of the Early English Text society, 1864; extra series, 1867; the Chaucer society, and the Ballad society, 1868; the New Shakspere society, 1873; the Wiclif and the Browning society, 1881; and was a voluminous contributor to nearly all.
English Reprints, 1868 ff.; An English Garner, 8 vols., 1877–96; The English Scholar’s Library, 1895 ff.; Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1875–94; The first printed English New Testament; The first three English books on America, Birmingham, 1885; The Term Catalogues, 1904–6.
www.bartleby.com /222/1500.html   (9620 words)

  
 Online Dictionary - Translation
In the meantime the dictionary has developed into a comprehensive portal containing translations, synonyms, verb forms, and much more.
The verb encyclopaedia provides a complete conjugation of verbs, inflection forms, and up to 20 conjugated tenses.
The Verb Encyclopaedia is available in 8 languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch and Swedish.
www.woxikon.com   (70 words)

  
 borough-English --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
the English form of ultimogeniture, the system of undivided inheritance by which real property passed intact to the youngest son or, failing sons, to the youngest daughter.
The term was first applied by English parliamentary reformers of the early 19th century to such constituencies maintained by the crown or by an aristocratic patron to control seats in the House of Commons.
The term was used by 19th-century English parliamentary reformers to describe the many boroughs in which a relatively small population was either bribed or coerced by the leading family or landowners to elect their representatives to Parliament.
www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9080778   (883 words)

  
 BOOKS ON ENCYCLOPAEDIAS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Encyclopaedia of Fish Culture; 3 Volumes / Hussain, S.M. Encyclopaedia of Fishes and Fisheries of India; 7 Volumes / Pandey, A.K. & et.
Encyclopaedia of Horticulture and Gardening / Wright, W.P. Encyclopaedia of Horticulture / Biles, Roy E. & Seymour, E.L.D. Encyclopaedia of Horticulture; 2 Volumes / Coutts, J. & et.
Encyclopaedia of New Media and Educational and Educational Planning; 5 Volumes / Hota, A.K. The Encyclopaedia of Nobel Laureates Chemistry; 2 Volumes / Benette, Raymond & et.
www.saujanyabooks.com /Encyclopaedias.htm   (8488 words)

  
 English Encyclopaedia article - English Encyclopaedia Charles Knight 1911 Encyclopaedia - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
English Encyclopaedia article - English Encyclopaedia Charles Knight 1911 Encyclopaedia - What-Means.com
The synoptical index, 168 pages, has four columns on a page, one for each division, so that the order is alphabetical and yet the words are classed.
English Encyclopaedia article - English Encyclopaedia definition - what means English Encyclopaedia
www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/English_Encyclopaedia   (117 words)

  
 African English (from English language) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
English originated in England and is now widely spoken on six continents.
English is the national language of the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.
Instruments like the English horn were used in the 16th century and seem to have entered the...
www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=74821   (883 words)

  
 Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The task of compiling an Encyclopedia of Buddhism in English was first undertaken by the Buddhist Council of Sri Lanka in 1955 to mark the Buddha Jayanthi, 2500th Anniversary of the Buddhist Era.
The first fascicle of the Encyclopaedia was released in 1961, and upto date 21 fascicles have been printed.
Minister Lokubandara had stressed the importance of hastening the process of completing the Encyclopaedia without delay, pointing out the rapidly waning numbers of scholars in the country with the right knowledge to contribute articles in the English Language to fulfil its cause.
www.sundayobserver.lk /2003/08/10/new21.html   (283 words)

  
 The Institute of Ismaili Studies: IIS to Develop English Version of The Great Islamic Encyclopaedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In addition to contributing a significant number of articles on Ismaili-related topics to the original Farsi version of the encyclopaedia, the Institute is scheduled to translate the anticipated 40-volume reference work into English.
Made available in English, French and German, EI consisted of 9,000 entries, ranging from 50 to 50,000 words, in four volumes.
The Great Islamic Encyclopedia project, based in Tehran and founded in March 1983, is an ambitious programme to produce a comprehensive and balanced reference of the Muslim world, in all its intellectual and cultural diversity, integrating the totality of contemporary scholarship from all over the world.
www.iis.ac.uk /news_events/news_stories/encyclopedia.htm   (528 words)

  
 An Encyclopaedia of Translation : Chinese-English, English-Chinese
The compilation of this encyclopaedia was prompted by the growth of translation as an academic subject in Hong Kong, this busy entrepot city where the transfer between the Chinese and English languages spans all aspects of life.
At the same time translation has been attracting increasing attention universally among students of the humanities for its historical role in introducing and relating one culture to another, and its ways and means of coping with the seemingly impossible task of accurately reflecting one 'thought-world' in terms of another.
Hence this encyclopaedia serves a dual purpose in addressing both local and universal concerns: the language-specific entries relate to the interaction between the Chinese-speaking and English-speaking worlds, while Western knowledge and experience are also drawn on for topics general to all translation studies.
www.literacyconnections.com /0_9622019978.html   (268 words)

  
 Participants From Abroad
AN 799.47017 AU Shubin, M.A. TI Algebraic remarks on idempotent semirings and the kernel theorem in spaces of bounded functions.
LA English SO Maslov, V. (ed.) et al., Idempotent analysis.
LA English SO Differential Equations 11(1975), 1637-1640 (1976).
mmf.ruc.dk /conf/MINISYMP/shubin.htm   (2742 words)

  
 NATIONAL GROUPS - English - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
Captain Cook and most of his crew were, of course, English, and the first European to settle was an Englishman.
It was a desire to transplant to New Zealand an epitome of English society, with its various gradations in due proportion, carrying with it English laws, customs, associations, habits, and manners, as well as the English political and economic systems.
In short, everything would be English except the land – and the climate – and in due time it was hoped that New Zealand would mirror the social system and national character of the mother country.
www.teara.govt.nz /1966/N/NationalGroups/English/en   (650 words)

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