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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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Universalist

Language; Translation

A philosophy of how intercultural communication works, endorsing translatability, for example.

Denotation

Language; Translation

Covers the decontextualized, dictionary meaning of a given lexical item.

In Vinay and Darbelnet's taxonomy, it is a translation method that encompasses calque, borrowing and literal translation. In relevance theory, direct translation is a kind of translation performed in ...

Equivalence

Language; Translation

A central term in linguistics-based translation studies, relating to the relationship of similarity between source text and target text segments. Also one of Vinay and Darbelnet's translation ...

Documentary translation

Language; Translation

A term used by Nord (e.g. 1997) to describe a translation method which does not conceal the fact that it is a translation. A translation strategy, discussed by Venuti (1995), in which a transparent, ...

Deconstruction

Language; Translation

A philosophical theory, centred in the work of Jacques Derrida and allied to poststructuralism and postmodernism, which interrogates language, discovers the multiple interpretations of texts and ...

Discourse

Language; Translation

Modes of speaking and writing which involve participants in adopting a particular attitude towards areas of socio-cultural activity (e.g. racist discourse, bureaucratese, etc.).