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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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Dynamic equivalence

Language; Translation

A translation which preserves the effect the source text had on its readers and which tries to elicit a similar response from the target reader.

Descriptive translation

Language; Translation

In relevance theory, this is the use of language normally as true or false of a given state of affairs. In translation, this mode amounts to a 'free' translation.

Empirical

Language; Translation

Based on experiment and observation rather than theory.

Operative text

Language; Translation

A type of text which aims at the formation of future behaviour and is thus part of persuasion. See also instruction.

Nominalization

Language; Translation

The condensed reformulation of a verbal process and the various participants involved as a noun phrase. This is an important grammatical resource for the expression of ideology. For example, by ...

1. The conventions (in the sense of implicitly agreed upon standards) of 'acceptable' content and rhetorical organization. 2. Observed and repeated patterns of translation (or other) behaviour in a ...

Oblique translation

Language; Translation

One of two translation methods described by Vinay and Darbelnet (the other is direct translation). It is used to cope with stylistic problems and covers modulation, transposition, equivalence, ...