Cluster Equivalence, General Language, Language for Specific Purposes
417called almost solutions that are applied, in which no exact values and
frames are accessible (Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk 2012). In such cases
the semantic tolerance threshold will be more indeterminate. In the
translation of authentic LSP discourse though, similarly to general
language, as was argued for in the present study, the approximate
equivalence solutions, used as clusters rather than uniquely parallel units
of equivalence, are typical translational solutions. The boundaries of
meaning modulation are limited in each case by the resemblance of
particular linguistic signs with reference to its extension, substitutability,
frequency and distribution as well as the context of use.
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