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Anything related to parents and children.

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calque

Language; Translation

The process whereby the individual elements of an source language item are translated literally to produce a target language equivalent (e.g. Ministère des finances – Ministry of ...

canon

Language; Translation

Texts or text considered part of the heritage of a particular community and thus mandatory reading in school and university curricula.

cataphora

Language; Translation

The use of a linguistic item to refer forward to subsequent elements in the text (e.g. In his speech, the King said . . .).

category shift

Language; Translation

A translation at a different rank in the target text (e.g. source text word by target text group).

cleft sentence

Language; Translation

A sentence structured in two parts. The first part, comprised of it + be, is intended to emphasize a particular piece of information, e.g. it was Mrs Smith who gave Mary the book.

cognitive environment

Language; Translation

In relevance theory, this is the interaction between the contextual assumptions regarding the meaning of an utterance and the interpretation yielded, or, to put it differently, ...

cognitive linguistics

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A branch of linguistics which studies the role of such mental processes as inference (see inferencing) in the reasoning necessary for processing texts.

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