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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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Translation

textual competence

Language; Translation

The ability not only to apply the exicogrammatical rules of a language in order to produce well-formed sentences, and not only to know when, where and to whom to use these sentences, but to know how ...

textual equivalence

Language; Translation

For Catford, this kind of equivalence is encountered in situations where formal equivalence is unworkable and where there is a need for a translation shift of some kind. Other authors (e.g. ...

textual function

Language; Translation

The use of language in the creation of well-formed texts.

texture

Language; Translation

The successful organization of a text in its context achieved by cohesion, coherence, textual function, etc.

transcription

Language; Translation

Translation that retains the form of the source text item in the target text, frequently used for names.

transformational generative grammar

Language; Translation

Theory of grammar proposed by the American linguist Noam Chomsky in 1957. Chomsky attempted to show how, with a system of internalized rules, native speakers of a language put their knowledge to use ...

transitivity

Language; Translation

A linguistic system in which a small set of presumably universal categories characterize different kinds of events and processes, different kinds of participants in these events, and the varying ...

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