Training courses.
Translation
of social science texts.
In the first stage, the training courses will not be centered on the acquisition of translation skills in a particular subject matter, but will be based on a general social science discourse corpus. The aim is to train competent translators from English and French into Khmer. The training course is made up of two modules:
A theoretical module. Far from being obvious, defining the notion of translation is a necessity: there are a number of books translated from English and French into Khmer which do not fit the requirements of what a translation should be. Basic notions such as homonymy, synonymy, antonymy and the question of definition will be defined and analyzed.
A practical module. It will be centered on the structural approach and the examination of selected texts, on the use of existing monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, and issues linked to the creation of new Khmer words.
By comparison with the other Southeast Asian languages, there is a striking lack of Khmer books in the various fields of the social sciences. Cambodian students do not have access to sources other than their courses.
One fundamental criterion of success for undergraduate university students lies in the possibility of using textbooks and books written in or translated into their mother tongue. That is the reason why the IDSSC has selected a number of English and French texts to be translated into the Khmer language.
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Translations into Khmer.
The following reference books in English and French will be translated into Khmer.
Law :
Jean Imbert, Histoire des institutions cambodgiennes.
Marion Simonet, Droit et famille au Cambodge, étude d'anthropologie juridique.
Michel Bonnieu, Hel Chamroeun, Code de procédure pénale
Eugène Bangoura, Cours de droit pénal khmer
Stéphanie Jamet, Cours de procédure pénale khmère
Eugène Bangoura, Michel Bonnieu, Droit pénal général khmer.
Linguistics:
Jean Aitchison, The seeds of speech, language origin and evolution.
Jean Aitchison, Language change: progress or decay.
Antoine Culioli, variations sur la linguistique.
R. Jakobson, 6 leçons sur le son et le sens.
J.K. Chambers and P.Trudgill, Dialectology.
O. Ducrot et J-M. Schaeffer, Nouveau dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences du langage.
N. Chomsky, Syntaxic structures.
E. Sapir, Language.
H. A. Gleason, An introduction to descriptive linguistics.
D. Maingueneau, Nouvelles tendances en analyse du discours.
Cultural anthropology:
J. Lombard, Introduction à l'ethnologie.
C. Lévi - Strauss, Race et histoire.
E. R. Leach, Political systems of highland Burma .
E.E. Evans - Pritchard, Essays in social anthropology.
G. Condominas, nous avons mangé la forêt,
Sociology :
G. Rocher Introduction à la sociologie générale, 3 tomes.
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Reference book publishing
in the social sciences
The IDSSC intends to publish or republish introductory textbooks to various social sciences either written directly in Khmer or in bilingual version (Khmer-English, Khmer-French). Some of those textbooks and books will be available on-line on the Institute's website. To these tools of dissemination, the IDSSC also intends to add radio and television programs to back up the now-existing university training in the various social sciences.
Publishing and republishing
Linguistics, an introduction. Translated excerpts from Antoine Meillet, Ferdinand de Saussure, Louis Hjemslev, Edward Sapir, and William Labov. (Khmer) 2004.
History of Cambodia , Michael Vickery. (Khmer, English), 2000.
A history of South-East Asia , Michael Vickery. (Khmer, English) 2001.
Between the tiger and the crocodile, Fabienne Lucot (Khmer, English, French), 2000.
Le Royaume du Cambodge, Jean Moura, 1885.
Recherches sur la législation cambodgienne, Adhémard Leclere, 1870.
Les codes cambodgiens, Tome I et II, Adhémard Leclere, 1898.
Recherches sur le droit public des Cambodgiens, Adhémard Leclere, 1894.
Histoire de l'ancien Cambodge, Etienne Aymonier, 1920.
Radio and television programs.
Without considering for the moment a complete introductory course to a specific field, this set of programs intends to highlight:
The notion of "social sciences".
The various ways to apply them in Cambodia .
The methodologies that characterize them.
Although those programs primarily concern university students, researchers and lecturers, they will nevertheless be prepared in a way that enables them to be understood by anyone without previous training.
