16 Terms
Home > Industry/Domain > Language; Translation & localization > Translation
Translation
The process of converting words and sentences from one language into another with the proper grammar and subject matter relevance.
Industry: Language; Translation & localization
Add a new termContributors in Translation
Translation
Kinship terms
Language; Translation
Terms that are used to describe blood or family relations within a group.
Langue
Language; Translation
Saussure's term for the abstract linguistic system that underlies a language in use.
Lexicogrammar
Language; Translation
A Hallidayan term for the lexis (vocabulary) and grammar of a language.
Transcription
Language; Translation
Translation that retains the form of the source text item in the target text, frequently used for names.
Transformational generative grammar
Language; Translation
Theory of grammar proposed by the American linguist Noam Chomsky in 1957. Chomsky attempted to show how, with a system of internalised rules, native speakers of a language put their knowledge to use ...
Textual competence
Language; Translation
The ability not only to apply the exicogrammatical rules of a language in order to produce well-formed sentences, and not only to know when, where and to whom to use these sentences, but to know how ...
Textual equivalence
Language; Translation
For Catford, this kind of equivalence is encountered in situations where formal equivalence is unworkable and where there is a need for a translation shift of some kind. Other authors (e.g. ...
Featured User
Featured blossaries
lemony
0
Terms
1
Blossaries
0
Followers
Classifications of Cardiovascular Death
Category: Health 1 2 Terms
2 Terms