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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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Power
Language; Translation
In the analysis of interpersonal meaning, two basic types of relationship may be distinguished: power and solidarity. Power emanates from the text producer's ability to impose his or her plans at the ...
Postmodernism
Language; Translation
A complex critical and artistic movement of the second half of the twentieth century highlighting fragmentation of perspective, subject and voice, in opposition to the 'rational' thought of older ...
Poststructuralism
Language; Translation
A reaction to the ordered 'scientific' views of structuralism, poststructuralism emerged in the 1960s as a critical philosophical movement based on theorization and destabilisation of language, ...
Propositional content
Language; Translation
What is involved in saying something that is meaningful and can be understood. Not included here is the function which the particular sentence performs in some specified context.
Prescriptive
Language; Translation
An approach to translation which seeks to dictate rules for 'correct' translation. Compare descriptive translation studies.
Pseudo-translations
Language; Translation
Target texts regarded as translations, though no genuine source texts exist for them.
Process of translation
Language; Translation
What happens linguistically and cognitively as the translator works on a translation.
