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

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re-writing

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Metalinguistic processes, including translation, which can be said to reinterpret, alter or generally manipulate text to serve a variety of ideological motives.

rhetorical purpose

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The intention behind the production of a text.

schema

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A global pattern representing the underlying structure which accounts for the organization of a text. A story schema, for example, may consist of a setting and a number of episodes, each of which ...

Another term for ‘frame’. These are global patterns realized by units of meaning that consist of events and actions related to particular situations. For example, a text may be structured around the ...

semantic field

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A category of words related by topic or sense. Thus, the semantic field of politics would include words such as government, parliament, prime minister, political party.

semantic prosody

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The positive or negative connotation which is transferred to a word by the semantic fields of its common collocates (see collocation). See componential analysis, contrastive analysis, disambiguation.

semantic translation

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One of two types of translation described by newmark, the other being communicative translation. Semantic translation attempts to reproduce source text form and sense as precisely as possible while ...