Translating Inspired Language, Transforming Sacred Texts: An Introduction

Translating Platform-independent Code into Natural Language Texts

Understanding software artifacts is not only time-consuming, without the proper training and experience it can be impossible. From a model-driven perspective there are two bene ts from translating platform-independent models into natural language texts: First, the non-functional properties of the solution have already been omitted meaning that the translations focus on describing the functional...

Translating Polish Texts into Sign Language in the Tgt System

In the paper a method of translation applied in a new system TGT is discussed. TGT translates texts written in Polish into corresponding utterances in the Polish sign language. Discussion is focused on text-into-text translation phase. Proper translation is done on the level of a predicative representation of the sentence. The representation is built on the basis of syntactic graph that depicts...

Translating and Transforming Care

This article examines how the Disability Living Allowance claim form, used in the United Kingdom to allocate £13 billion of disability benefits, translates and transforms disability and care. Twenty-two people with acquired brain injury and their main informal caregivers (n = 44) were video-recorded filling in the disability claim form. Participants disagreed on 26% of the questions, revealing ...

A religion of the book? On sacred texts in hinduism

In this article I provide an overview of the identity, role and function of sacred texts in Hinduism. Hinduism’s tremendous diversity extends to the numerous ways in which different types of texts have been identified as sacred and used by Hindu practitioners. It would be a mistake to attempt to summarise the role of sacred texts in the lives of Hindus, since different texts have had different ...

Linguistics and the Sacred Language of the Qur'an