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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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terminology

Language; Translation

Specialized vocabulary relating to a specific field of translation.

tertium comparationis

Language; Translation

A non-linguistic, intermediate form of the meaning of a source text and target text used for evaluation of sense transfer.

A sequence of cohesive and coherent sentences realizing a set of mutually relevant intentions (see cohesion, coherence, intentionality). A text exhibits features which serve a particular contextual ...

text analysis

Language; Translation

The analysis of lexicogrammatical features and communicative functions of real texts.

text linguistics

Language; Translation

Analytical research within linguistics which focuses on the text rather than lower-level units such as word or phrase.

text type

Language; Translation

Classification of texts according to broad type. Proposed by Reiss, who sees type determining translation strategy. See expressive, informative and operative texts.