1996 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Computer-Assisted Study of the Vocabulary of the Early Modern English Biblical Translations
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06610437
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
英語・英米文学
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
WATANABE Hideki Osaka University, Faculty of Language and Culture, Associate Professor, 言語文化部, 助教授 (30191787)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1994 – 1996
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| Keywords | William Tyndale / English Bible / Early Modern English / Vocabulary / Computer-Assisted Study / The Oxford English Dictionary / Self-Interpreting Pair |
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| Research Abstract |
In 1994 for the preliminary research, the researcher visited several libraries which possess the editions of and monographs on Early Modern English Biblical translations in order to get photocopies of them. And he edited an electric text of The Pistle unto the Romans (1526) and the fragment of The Gospel of S.Mathew (1525) by William Tyndale from the facsimile editions. In the course of the work he found some peculiar use of words by Tyndale, which he reported in an article 'The Origin and Lineage of Self-Interpreting Pair of Synonyms' on The Rising Generation.
In 1995 he read a paper 'The Origin and Lineage of the expression 'while the world standeth' seen in The Authorized Version of the English Bible' at the 67th conference of The English Literary Society of Japan. And he built an alphabetical list of the headwords in The Oxford English Dictionary for which quotations from Tyndale appear. He wrote four articles for the column 'the new trend abroad' on The Rising Generation, reporting what is in progress in the study of the English Bible in the United Kingdom.
In 1996 he published an article 'The Origin and Lineage of the expression 'while the world standeth' seen in The Authorized Version of the English Bible'. And he found that the expression 'while the world standeth' is passed on to the two later editions of the English Bible by Wesley (1770) and Noah Webster (1833), making use of Bible in English on CD-Rom.
In the three-year term for Grant-In-Aid he has achieved good results, publishing ten articles on the English Bible and The Oxford English Dictionary. He is planning to contribute an English version of the article mentioned above to the journal of The Tyndale Society.
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