TRANS THEORY - CHAPTER 4

A collection of parallel texts collected about the same topic and containing almost the same information but the marker of continuity is not used in the same way.

• True

• False

Parallel texts cannot help heritage speakers with translation tasks, as well as with the acquisition of textual competence.

• True

• False

Cohesion consists of the meaning and pragmatic relations that underlie a text and that give it unity, meaning, and purpose.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Coherence consists of the meaning and pragmatic relations that underlie a text and that give it unity, meaning, and purpose.

In translation, textual connections will often have to be reworked according to target language norms.

• True

• False

Old information is also known as “given” or “known” information.

• True

• False

English is less strict in word order than German.

• True

• False

Translated corpora are collections of translated texts in which the ------ (6 letters) and ------ (6 letters) texts are aligned, or presented side-by-side on the page.

Cohesive devices are ----- (5 letters) textual signs that help the reader establish textual coherence.

Cohesion refers to the -------- (8 letters) marking, through linguistic means, of the links between a sequence of distinct sentences that make those sentences hang together.

Old information is marked through reference and linguistic markers of reference, also known as -------- (8 letters).