The Translator as Communicator

>
ellipsis
in the above
exchange could
conceivably be used to
relay ‘marital tension’.
Coherence relations
thus exist between co-
communicants in a
context of utterance.
communicative:
see 
context
compensation:
a set of translation
procedures aimed at making
up for the loss of relevant
features of meaning in the
source text by reproducing
the overall effect in the target
language.
connotation:
additional meanings which a
lexical item acquires beyond
its primary, referential
meaning, e.g. 
notorious
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means 
‘
famous’ but with
negative connotations.
Denotations,
on the other
hand, cover primary
referential meanings of a
given lexical item.
consecutive interpreting:
see 
liaison interpreting
context:
the extra-textual
environment which exerts a
determining influence on the
language used. The subject
matter of a given text is part
of 
> register
and can thus
determine, say, the way the
text presents who is doing
what to whom 
(>
transitivity).
Three domains
of context may be
distinguished:
• a communicative
domain, including >
register membership;
• a pragmatic domain,
covering >
intentionality;
• a semiotic domain,
accounting for >
intertextuality.
the cooperative principle:
the assumption that
interlocutors cooperate with
each other by observing
certain so-called