Philip A Noss

Biographic Data

ID5165318
NAMEPhilip A Noss
GIVEN NAMESPhilip A
FAMILY NAMENoss
SIGNATURENOSS P A
AFFILIATIONSAssistant Professor Department of African Languages and Literature The University of Wisconsin
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Bible Translation

    Open AccessErnst R Wendland, Ernst Wendland et al.CHAPTEREncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics2026

    This entry surveys Bible translation as a multidisciplinary enterprise at the intersection of applied linguistics, biblical studies, and intercultural communication. After a brief overview of the historical development of Bible translation from the Septuagint to contemporary common‐language and oral/sign‐language versions, it summarizes recent global statistics and the sociolinguistic impact of Scripture translation on literacy, orthography devel…

  • Jewish Bible Translations

    Open AccessPhilip A NossARTICLEInternational Bulletin of Mission…2023

    Jewish Bible Translations, by the renowned Jewish scholar Leonard Greenspoon, is a classic study of the translation of the Bible. The first of its kind, it is an informative and instructive model for Bible translation studies. It describes the Bible’s translations by a people who were nationless over three millennia. Living in a plethora of different settings, experiencing an infinite variety of conditions, they have rendered their sacred documen…

  • Gbaya Riddles in Changing Times

    Philip A NossARTICLEResearch in African Literatures2006Cited by: 1

    Gbaya Riddles in Changing Times Philip A. Noss Abstract While the ridde constitutes a game that challenges the intellectual adroitness of the riddler's peers, it is a metaphor that confronts the apparently impossible with what is. If Harold Scheub is correct in affirming in his book The Poem in the Story (Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2002) that the riddle is “a model for all oral art,” then the dynamics of riddle change are significant for the enti…

  • Wanto and Laaiso and the Gbaya Bible

    Open AccessPhilip A No, Philip A NossARTICLEThe Bible Translator2001References: 3

  • Malinowski's Magic

    Karl Erik Rosengren, Joel S Canby et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1976Cited by: 2References: 7

    The author uses the technique of substruction in order to explicate the conceptualizations about magic, science, and religion which, over more than 50 years, have been brought forward by anthropologists like Malinowski, Nadel, and Goody. The outcome is several typologies which encompass also the important linguistic notion of performative acts originated by J. L. Austin. By means of these typologies it is possible to relate to each other in a log…

  • Readers' Response

    Open AccessPhilip A NossARTICLEPractical Anthropology1972

  • The Gbaya Dance of Diang

    Open AccessPhilip A NossARTICLEPractical Anthropology1971

    Diang was the first Gbaya dance festival, and provided young boys with their first formal introduction to discipline and endurance. It was performed at the beginning of the rainy season for boys six to eight years of age. This dance was a celebration of the creation of the social order. The author describes the rites and cites a number of the songs used with them

  • Wanto

    Philip A NossARTICLEJournal of the Folklore Institute1971Cited by: 3

  • The Danger of Courtesy

    Open AccessPhilip A NossARTICLEPractical Anthropology1970

    The rules of behavior which make social life possible are very important; but they differ radically from society to society. The foreigner cannot ignore the code of the people among whom he is living because this would cause offense; nor can he give up his own code and totally adopt the other, because people will be suspicious of one who abandons his own code. Rather, he should learn and apply the basic tenets of the host society in appropriate s…