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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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re-writing
Language; Translation

Metalinguistic processes, including translation, which can be said to reinterpret, alter or generally manipulate text to serve a variety of ideological motives.

rhetorical purpose
Language; Translation

The intention behind the production of a text.

schema
Language; Translation

A global pattern representing the underlying structure which accounts for the organization of a text. A story schema, for example, may consist of a setting and a number of ...

script
Language; Translation

Another term for ‘frame’. These are global patterns realized by units of meaning that consist of events and actions related to particular situations. For example, a text may be ...

semantic field
Language; Translation

A category of words related by topic or sense. Thus, the semantic field of politics would include words such as government, parliament, prime minister, political party.

semantic prosody
Language; Translation

The positive or negative connotation which is transferred to a word by the semantic fields of its common collocates (see collocation). See componential analysis, contrastive ...

semantic translation
Language; Translation

One of two types of translation described by newmark, the other being communicative translation. Semantic translation attempts to reproduce source text form and sense as precisely ...

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