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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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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.

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, between ‘purpose’ and ...

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.

coherence

Language; Translation

A standard which all well-formed texts must meet and which stipulates that the grammatical and/or lexical relationships ‘hang together’ and make overall sense as text.