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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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A global pattern representing the underlying structure which accounts for the organisation of a text. A storey schema, for example, may consist of a setting and a number of episodes, each of which ...

Re-translation

Language; Translation

In postcolonialism, a practise of 'resistance' by translating anew key texts to subvert colonialist discourse. The less technical meaning of 're-translation' refers to the new translation of ...

Semantic prosody

Language; Translation

The positive or negative connotation which is transferred to a word by the semantic fields of its common collocates (see collocation). See componential analysis, contrastive analysis, disambiguation.

Semantic field

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A category of words related by topic or sense. Thus, the semantic field of politics would include words such as government, parliament, prime minister, political party.

Re-writing

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Metalinguistic processes, including translation, which can be said to reinterpret, alter or generally manipulate text to serve a variety of ideological motives.