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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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Subject matter, including aspects of perceiving the world influenced by social institutions and social processes at work. A translation which seeks to preserve ‘alien’ features of a source text in ...

form

Language; Translation

The shape or appearance of a linguistic unit, in contrast to its content.

formal correspondence

Language; Translation

The general, systemic relationship between an source language and target language element, out of context (e.g. There may be formal correspondence between este in Spanish and this in English; ...

formal correspondent

Language; Translation

A target language item which generally fulfils the same function in the target language as the source language item does in the source language, or vice versa (e.g. This may be a formal correspondent ...