Translation

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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Translator aids

Language; Translation

All kinds of computerised and non-computerized aids for translation (e.g. translation memory tools, dictionaries, glossaries).

Translation procedures

Language; Translation

Vinay and Darbelnet identify seven main techniques of translation which they term 'procedures'.

Comprehensibility

Language; Translation

The accessibility and transparency of a target text in conveying source text meaning efficiently, effectively and appropriately. Translation in which computerised tools such as term banks and ...

Communicative clue

Language; Translation

In relevance theory, a stimulus to interpretation supplied by the formal properties of the source text.

An adjustment technique resorted to with the aim of making up for the loss of important source text features in translation with a gain at the same or other points in the target text. The fourth part ...

Concordance

Language; Translation

In corpus linguistics, this is an on-screen or printed-out list of occurrences of the search term with surrounding co-text. Additional meanings which a lexical item acquires beyond its primary, ...

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.