Translation

Translation

The process of converting words and sentences from one language into another with the proper grammar and subject matter relevance.

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monitoring

Language; Translation

Expounding in a non-evaluative manner. This is in contrast with managing, which involves steering the discourse towards speaker’s goals.

near-synonyms

Language; Translation

Two words that have a very similar sense. Source language nearsynonyms will require disambiguation, while target language near-synonyms are potential equivalents for a source text term.

nominalization

Language; Translation

The condensed reformulation of a verbal process and the various participants involved as a noun phrase. This is an important grammatical resource for the expression of ideology. For example, by ...

normative

Language; Translation

A type of equivalence relation which focuses on the conventions governing language use (e.g. the rhetorical preference in writing within a particular genre).

1. The conventions (in the sense of implicitly agreed upon standards) of ‘acceptable’ content and rhetorical organization. 2. Observed and repeated patterns of translation (or other) behavior in a ...

oblique translation

Language; Translation

One of two translation methods described by Vinay and Darbelnet (the other is direct translation). It is used to cope with stylistic problems and covers modulation, transposition, equivalence, ...