Didactics of Translation: Text in Context

Chapter III

1. 
   The term “aspect” is another variant for the term model. Chau (1984: 120) uses the term “model” to refer to a particular approach to curriculum planning.
   

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2. 
   Chafe (1976: 30) cited in Baker (1992: 152) uses the term “consciousness” to refer to this knowledge:
   

Given or old information is that knowledge which the speaker assumes to be in the consciousness of the addressee at the time of the utterance. So-called new information is what the speaker assumes he is introducing to the addressee’s consciousness by what he says.

3. 
   The other meaning of ‘text’ is that which is used by Hatim and Mason (1990) to refer to a unit of structure which is used in the service of an overall rhetorical purpose such as arguing or expounding.
   
4. 
   Farghal (1993: 2) cited in Shunnaq (1994: 104) uses the expression “extrinsic management” to refer to the translator’s intervention in the text to achieve his own goals, and he contrasts it with “intrinsic management” in which the translator resorts to alterations in order to make up for “mismatches” between the source language and the target language.
   

5 - Citing Cruse (1986), Baker distinguishes four major types of lexical meaning: propositional meaning, expressive meaning, presupposed meaning and evoked meaning (Baker 1992: 12-17).