Language

Language

Of of pertaining to any method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way, whether united in a system specific to a country or region.

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functional

Language; Translation

Having a role to perform in the development of a text. Functional signals are in contrast with other purely formal devices whose role is, as the term suggests, merely ...

functional tenor

Language; Translation

An aspect of tenor (see tenor of discourse) or level of formality used to describe what language is used for (e.g. persuading), and is thus very much akin to the notion of text.

functionality

Language; Translation

The communicative or contextual motivation of a source text element. A form of sentence analysis devised by the Prague School of Linguists. The major element contributing to ...

fuzzy match

Language; Translation

A close but non-perfect translation match located in an electronic translation memory.

genre

Language; Translation

Conventional forms of text associated with particular types of social occasion or communicative events (e.g. the news report, the editorial, the cooking recipe).