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SIL International Publications in Translation and Textlinguistics

Artistic and Rhetorical Patterns in Quechua Legendary Texts by Agot Bergli, PTT 3, 2010, 322 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-244-9, $36.00

Shows the role of specific linguistic structures in the creation of formulaic, artistic patterns in Quechua legendary narratives and explores how the patterns function in relation to concepts such as main event line and other rhetorical structures.

The Development of Textlinguistics in the Writings of Robert Longacre, ed. by Shin Ja J. Hwang, PTT 4, 2010, 444 pp. ISBN 978-1-55671-246-3, $46.00

This book brings together Robert Longacre’s articles on textlinguistics and discourse analysis scattered throughout journals and books. Longacre’s theory of textlinguistics focuses on the intersection of the morphosyntax and discourse structure.

LiFE-Style Translating: A Workbook for Bible Translators, Second Edition, by Ernst R. Wendland, PTT 2, 2011, 478 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-243-2, $49.95

This workbook is intended to introduce translators, exegetes, Bible students and communicators of the Scriptures to some of the main forms and functions of biblical literature, prose as well as poetry.

Translating the Literature of Scripture by Ernst R. Wendland, PTT 1, 2004, 533 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-152-7, $39.95

This book proposes the implementation of a literary functional-equivalence (LiFE) method of the translation that seeks to represent or recreate in a given language the variety of expressive and affective dynamics of the diverse texts of Scripture.