FROM CONCEPT TO UNDERSTANDING: A NEW APPROACH TO TERMINOGRAPHY IN THE SADF.

dc.creator	J.H. Picard
dc.date	2012-02-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T20:09:15Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T20:09:15Z
dc.identifier	10.5787/21-3-340
dc.identifier	2224-0020
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/598c3140c63f40e59163ad875149c1b0
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/8849
dc.identifier.uri	https://doaj.org/article/598c3140c63f40e59163ad875149c1b0
dc.description	<p><strong>(An address delivered at the Eighth Military Language Congress)</strong></p><p>1.1 On the African continent approximations of the number of languages used vary between 800 and several thousand. Many of these languages are largely not even written and as far as lexicography is concerned, latest approximations indicate that there is less than one dictionary per African language while a European language such as English has more than 6000 dictionaries. The interaction of languages was largely unidirectional in colonial times and the few dictionaries that are available are Euro-centric, i.e. compiled by European missionaries and teachers with the European language as source language and the African language concerned as target language, for instance the English-Tswana Dictionary. The problem then arising is that the format and approach adopted is chiefly that of the European and not enough cognisance is taken of the culture and environment of the African languages concerned. Consequently, socio-linguistic aspects are given very little consideration and this makes language contact rather sterile and unproductive.</p>
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy)
dc.relation	http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/340
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0020
dc.source	Scientia Militaria : South African Journal of Military Studies, Vol 21, Iss 3 (2012)
dc.subject	SELECTING A LANGUAGE
dc.subject	CHANGE IN APPROACH
dc.subject	INTEGRATING THE APPROACH
dc.subject	African language
dc.subject	European language
dc.subject	monolingual dictionaries
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
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dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.title	FROM CONCEPT TO UNDERSTANDING: A NEW APPROACH TO TERMINOGRAPHY IN THE SADF.
dc.type	Article