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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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Adaptation

Language; Translation

A target text where many textual modifications have been made, including modifications for a different audience (cf. version). In Vinay and Darbelnet's List of translation procedures, adaptation ...

A word-for-word translation of a target text back into the source language, often retaining the structure of the target text. This can be used to explain the translation process for an audience that ...

Argumentation

Language; Translation

A text type in which concepts and/or beliefs argumentative are evaluated. The two basic forms are counter-argumentation, where a thesis is presented and then challenged, and through-argumentation, ...

Back-transformation

Language; Translation

A kind of paraphrase in which surface structures are replaced by other, more basic structures (e.g. event nouns into verbal expressions: wrath > x is angry).

Agent deletion

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The omission in a passive sentence of the noun or noun phrase which follows by, e.g. the reasons outlined (by the writer). Such uses of the grammar can be ideologically motivated.

Alignment

Language; Translation

The juxtaposition of a source text sentence with its target text equivalent. A tool of corpus linguistics that allows rapid comparison of source text–target text elements.