S.S 4.3 (Word order and text)

Question 1

2 Basic building blocks of language

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Lexical stock.

Grammatical structures.

Question 2

Meaning potential

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Is only realised in communicative events in texts.

Question 3

The verbal record of a communicative event

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It is an instance of language in use rather than language as an abstract system of meanings and relations.

Question 4

What is a text

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When people speak or write, they create a text.

Question 5

Text

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Any instance of language, in any medium that makes sense to someone who knows the language.

Question 6

A text is language that is functional

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Language that is doing some job in some context.

Question 7

A text is rich of

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Many-facted phenomenon that ‘means’ in many different ways.

Really made out of meaning.

Question 8

A text enables a

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Social exchange of meanings.

Question 9

A text can be explored from

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Many points of views.

Question 10

Must view text as

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A whole.

At the beginning and the end of the process.

Question 11

Translators should ensure they

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Understand the text before translating.

Question 12

Translators should produce a TT that is

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Accepted as a text in its own right.

The phraseology and the collocational and grammatical pattering of the TT have to conform to the TL norms.

Question 13

A text has features of organisation which distinguish it from non-text

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From a random collection of sentences and paragraphs.

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There are connections which are establish through

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The arrangement of info within each clause.

The way this relates to the arrangement of info in preceding and following clauses and sentences.

Question 15

These contribute mainly to topic development and maintenance through

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Thematic

Information structure.

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There are surface connections which establish

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Interrelationships between persons and events.

Question 17

Allow us to trace

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Participants in a text

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Allow us to interpret

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The way in which different parts of the text relate to each other.
Cohesion.

Question 19

Cohesion

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Network of surface relationships which link words and expressions to other expressions in a text.
Property of the text.

Question 20

Coherence

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Network of relations which organise and create a text.

Reader’s evaluation.

Question 21

Cohesion and coherence both concern the way of the

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Stretches of languages are connected to one another by virtue of lexical and grammatical dependencies.

Question 22

Cohesion grammatical feature of text organisation

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Reference.
Substitution/endophonic.
Ellipsis.

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Cohesion lexical feature of text organisation

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Repetition.
Synonyms.
Superordinates.
General words.

Question 24

There are underlying semantic connections which allows us to

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Make sense of a text as a unit of meaning.

Coherence and implicature.

Question 25

Derives from the overlapping notion of

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Genre.

Text type.