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Publication details [#49378]

Naudé, Jacobus. 2004. Representation of poetry in Afrikaans Bible translations: A corpus-based analysis. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 35 (1) : 226–247.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

corpus analysis | poetry | religion | representational structure | translation

Language as a subject

Afrikaans | Hebrew

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper uses a corpus-based analysis to show in what way the main characteristic of biblical Hebrew poetry, namely parallelism, is represented in various Afrikaans Bible translations.