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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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textual competence
Language; Translation
The ability not only to apply the exicogrammatical rules of a language in order to produce well-formed sentences, and not only to know when, where and to whom to use these ...
textual equivalence
Language; Translation
For Catford, this kind of equivalence is encountered in situations where formal equivalence is unworkable and where there is a need for a translation shift of some kind. Other ...
texture
Language; Translation
The successful organization of a text in its context achieved by cohesion, coherence, textual function, etc.
transcription
Language; Translation
Translation that retains the form of the source text item in the target text, frequently used for names.
transformational generative grammar
Language; Translation
Theory of grammar proposed by the American linguist Noam Chomsky in 1957. Chomsky attempted to show how, with a system of internalized rules, native speakers of a language put ...
transitivity
Language; Translation
A linguistic system in which a small set of presumably universal categories characterize different kinds of events and processes, different kinds of participants in these events, ...
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