GIALens: Electronic Notes Series

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April 2010, Volume 4, No. 2

A Preliminary Contrastive Study of English and Supyire: Expository Texts Using RST Analysis
by Christy Melick
Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics Student

An Analysis of Psalm 27
by Harry Magin
Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics Student

A Brief Grammatical Sketch of Ngambay
by Mekoulnodji Ndjerareou, Christy Melick, & Sarah Moeller
Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics Students

Illiteracy in the Arab Region: A Meta Study
by Shawn Magin
Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics Student

January 2010, Volume 4, No. 1

Are Russian Brothers Really Tuvan Brothers? The Allure of Incipient Christianese in Bible Translation
by Vitaly Voinov, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Texas at Arlington
Institute of Bible Translation

Place-Names in Dodoth
by Terrill Schrock, M.A.
SIL Uganda

September 2009, Volume 3, No. 3

Strategic Planning and Scripture Use:  Integration of Results Based Management and Conditions of  Scripture Use
by Carol Jean Gallagher
Scripture Use Consultant, PNG Branch

A Brief Introduction to Tangari Phonology
by Jennifer Herington, Amy Kennemur, Joseph Lovestrand, Kathryn Seay, Meaghan Smith, and Carla Vande Zande
Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics Students

The Question of Death Among the Ngambay People:  Some Background
by Priscille Mekoulnodji Ndjerareou, M.A.
Language Consultant, GIAL

April 2009, Volume 3, No. 2

• David Ford: The Influence of Word Order on Modern Standard Arabic Information Structure
• Joseph Lovestrand: French Causatives in LFG: Adverbial Complements as Evidence of Subjecthood Properties of the Causee
• Karl J. Franklin: Etic and Emic Stories
• Steve Parker: An Affix-Specific Phoneme in Arammba

January 2009, Volume 3, No. 1

• Michael Fiddler and David Ford: Hobbes and Heresy: Conceptual Blends and How People React to Them
• Jonathan Jay: Reciprocal Constructions in Biblical Hebrew
• Robert Guy Mckee: Storytelling For Peace-Building: Toward Sustainable Cultural Diversity
• Steven Woodard, Jr.: The Tripartite Nominal Clause in Biblical Hebrew: An Analysis of Extraposition with Verbless Clauses

September 2008, Volume 2, No. 3

• Richard Cox: Why Rangi Christians Continue to Practice African Traditional Religion
• Robert A. Dooley: Relevance Theory and Discourse Analysis: Complementary Approaches for Translator Training
• Tim Hatcher: Towards Culturally Appropriate Adult Education Methodologies for Bible Translators: Comparing Central Asian and Western Educational Practices
• Roger Stone: The Marked Topic Slot in Ayta Abellen

April 2008, Volume 2, No. 2

• Kathleen Bruce: Biblical Backgrounds Training for Translators
• Ivan Lowe: Domain Theory in Language
• Carol McKinney and Elinor Abbot: What Place Does Cultural Anthropology Have in Translation Programs for the 21st Century?
• Keith Patman and Carole Fennig: Tools and Training for Mother-Tongue Bible Translators
• Robert B. Reed: On the Relationship Among Training, Mentoring, and Education
• Mirja Ronning: A Study Program in the Land of the Bible as a Method for Training Translators: Biblical Text in Context

January 2008, Volume 2, No. 1

• Barry Funnell: A Holistic Field-Based Training Program: The Birthplace of Multiple Translation Projects in Southeast Tanzania and Ethiopia
• Fritz Goerling: Mentoring as Empowering: The Mentoring of Translation Consultants-in-Training
• Gilles Gravelle: Theological Training and Mother-Tongue Translators
• Elizabeth J. Olsen: Training for Translation: How Can We be More Integrative in Our Approach? A View from the Formal Education Perspective in Africa
• Murray Salisbury: Mentoring Meaning: Bridging the Cognitive Gap between Biblical and Receptor Worldviews
• Wolf Seiler: Train for Success, Guide to Significance
• Tim Hatcher: Book Review: Andrea Edmundson, ed. Globalized E-Learning Cultural Challenges. Hershey, PA: Information Science Publishing, 2007.

September 2007, Volume 1, No. 3

• Thomas G. Matthews: M.A. Thesis: Implicit Information in the Target Language Context
• Steve Parker: Un Análisis Acústico del Quechua del Cusco (An Acoustic Analysis of Cusco Quechua)
• Terrill Schrock: Syntactic Exorcism

April 2007, Volume 1, No. 2

• Andrew Bowling: The General/Gnomic Usage of Hebrew Morphologies in the Book of Isaiah
• Kathleen Bruce: The Wisdom Fest
• Robert Guy McKee: The Meegye Connective BHE as a Discourse Developmental Marker

January 2007, Volume 1, No. 1

• Maryanne Augustin: Topic and Focus in Swahili
• Christina Gray and Heather Rice: From Stars to Sand: Finding the Roots of Tajik Worldview by Analyzing Nature Conceptual Metaphors as Used in National Literature
• Ruth Molitor and Amanda Thomas: The Importance of Culture in Conceptual Blends: As Evidenced in Two Western Comic Strips
• Peter Unseth: How to Collect 1,000 Proverbs Quickly: Field Methods for Eliciting and Collecting Proverbs
• Shelley Ashdown: Investigating World View Through Narrative Analysis

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