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  2. J. C. Catford - Wikipedia

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    Catford could identify where people were from exclusively through their speech. His expertise – which included formal phonetics , the aerodynamic and physiological production of speech, phonetic peculiarities in speech, and an astounding ability to reproduce words, and even speeches, backwards – led him to be invited to the University of ...

  3. Translation (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    In Euclidean geometry, a translation is a geometric transformation that moves every point of a figure, shape or space by the same distance in a given direction. A translation can also be interpreted as the addition of a constant vector to every point, or as shifting the origin of the coordinate system. In a Euclidean space, any translation is ...

  4. Shift operator - Wikipedia

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    Shift operators are examples of linear operators, important for their simplicity and natural occurrence. The shift operator action on functions of a real variable plays an important role in harmonic analysis, for example, it appears in the definitions of almost periodic functions, positive-definite functions, derivatives, and convolution. [2]

  5. Skopos theory - Wikipedia

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    The theory first appeared in an article published by linguist Hans Josef Vermeer in the German Journal Lebende Sprachen, 1978. [2]As a realisation of James Holmes’ map of Translation Studies (1972), [3] [4] skopos theory is the core of the four approaches of German functionalist translation theory [5] that emerged around the late twentieth century.

  6. Translation operator (quantum mechanics) - Wikipedia

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    More specifically, for any displacement vector, there is a corresponding translation operator ^ that shifts particles and fields by the amount . For example, if T ^ ( x ) {\displaystyle {\hat {T}}(\mathbf {x} )} acts on a particle located at position r {\displaystyle \mathbf {r} } , the result is a particle at position r + x {\displaystyle ...

  7. Cultural translation - Wikipedia

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    Catford rationalised this theory in his book Linguistic Theory of Translation: "Cultural untranslatability arises when a situational feature, functionally relevant for the source language text, is completely absent from the culture of which the TL is a part. For instance, the names of some institutions, clothes, foods and abstract concepts ...

  8. Translation unit - Wikipedia

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    Loops of translation units are thought to be the basic units by which translations are produced. Thus, Malmkjaer, [6] for instance, defines process oriented translation units as a “stretch of the source text that the translator keeps in mind at any one time, in order to produce translation equivalents in the text he or she is creating” (p ...

  9. Literal translation - Wikipedia

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    Literal translation, direct translation, or word-for-word translation is the translation of a text done by translating each word separately without analysing how the words are used together in a phrase or sentence. [1] In translation theory, another term for literal translation is metaphrase (as opposed to paraphrase for an analogous translation).