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Knowledge organization
A field of study invloving the indexing and classification of knowledge that is usually performed in libraries, databases and archives etc. It is related to Library and Information Science(LIS).
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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
Language; Translation
A branch of linguistics which studies the role of such mental processes as inference (see inferencing) in the reasoning necessary for processing texts.
