Translation glossary

• Accuracy
• Addressee
• Alliteration
• Allusion
• Alphabet
• Anachronism
• Anaphora
• Anthropomorphism
• Antithetical parallelism
• Aphorism
• Apocalyptic
• Apocrypha
• Apostrophe
• Aramaic
• Archaism
• Artificial construction
• Audience
• Authorial intention
• Autographs
• Back translation (BT)
• Base text
• Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS)
• Biblical languages
• Biblish
• Borrowing
• Calque
• Canon
• Causal relation
• Chiasmus
• Choppy
• Clarity
• Clear
• Cliche
• Closest natural equivalent
• Coherence
• Cohesion
• Collocational clash
• Colloquialism
• Commentary
• Committee translation
• Common language translation (CLT)
• Communicative accuracy
• Community testing
• Complete equivalence (CE)
• Comprehension check
• Concordance
• Connotation
• Construct relationship
• Construction
• Context
• Critical apparatus
• Critical text
• Cultural clash
• Cultural substitute
• Denotation
• Descriptive grammar
• Deuterocanonical
• Dictionary
• Discourse
• Discourse analysis
• Disjointed
• Donor language
• Doublet
• Dynamic
• Dynamic equivalence (DE)
• Eclectic text
• Ellipsis
• Epistle
• Epistolary
• Equivalent
• Eschatology
• Etymology
• Euphemism
• Exact equivalence
• Exclusive language
• Exegesis
• Exegete
• Exegetical accuracy
• Explicit information
• Expository
• Extended metaphor
• Extraneous information
• Faithfulness
• Fidelity
• Field testing
• Figure of speech
• Form
• Formal equivalence translation (FE)
• Form-equivalent translation
• Free translation
• Front translation
• Fullness of meaning
• Function
• Functional equivalence
• Functional linguistics
• Gender
• Gender accuracy (inclusive language)
• Genitives
• Genre
• Gist
• Gloss
• Grammar
• Greek
• Hearer
• Hebraism
• Hebrew
• Hebrew Bible
• Hellenistic Greek
• Hendiadys
• Hermeneutics
• Higher criticism
• Historical anachronism
• Hortatory
• Hyperbole
• Idiom
• Idiomatic translation
• Illocutionary force
• Implicature
• Implied information
• Implicit information
• Inadequate meaning
• Inclusive language
• Inspiration
• Intention
• Interlinear translation
• Interpretation
• Interpretive translation
• Interpropositional relation (IPR)
• Irony
• Jargon
• KJV-Onlyism
• Koine Greek
• Language
• Lexicography
• Lexicon
• Linguistically possible translation
• Linguistics
• Literacy
• Literal translation
• Literal-idiomatic translation
• Litotes
• Loan translation
• Loan word
• Logical relation
• Lower criticism
• LXX
• Macrostructure
• Majority Text (MT)
• Manuscript
• Masoretic text (MT)
• Meaning
• Meaning-based translation (MB)
• Meiosis
• Metaphor
• Metonymy
• Model text
• Morpheme
• Morphology
• Mother tongue translator (MTT)
• Multivalence
• Narrative
• Native translator
• Natural
• Neologism
• Nestle-Aland text
• Obsolescent
• Onomatopoeia
• Oral language
• Original texts
• Orthography
• Other Tongue Translator (OTT)
• Parable
• Parallelism
• Paraphrase
• Partial meaning
• Periphrasis
• Perlocutionary force
• Personification
• Perspicuity
• Phrase
• Plain English
• Polyvalence
• Possession
• Pragmatics
• Précis
• Prescriptive grammar
• Readability
• Reading level
• Received Text
• Receptor language (RL)
• Regionalism
• Register
• Relevance theory (RT)
• Repartee
• Repetition
• Rhetorical impact
• Rhetorical parallelism
• Rhetorical question
• Rhythm
• Sarcasm
• Schoolbook grammar
• Semantics
• Semiotics
• Semiticism
• Septuagint
• Simile
• Source language (SL)
• Synecdoche
• Synonym
• Synonymous
• Synonymous parallelism
• Syntactic function
• Syntax
• Tanakh
• Target language (TL)
• Text
• Textual criticism
• Textus Receptus (TR)
• Theological terms
• Thought-for-thought translation
• Transculturation
• Translation
• Translation theory
• Transliteration
• Trope
• UBS text
• Understandable
• Understatement
• Utterance
• Vernacular translation
• Vulgar
• Vulgate
• Word
• Word-for-word translation
• Word order
• Written language
• Wrong meaning
• Zero meaning

Other websites with related glossaries

• Bible Studies
• The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Department of Theology On-Line Glossary Project of the University of Notre Dame
• A Dictionary of Special and Technical Terms for Hebrew and Greek Studies
• Elements of Persuasion in the Bible
• Fields of Linguistics (larger articles)
• Figures of Speech
• The Forest of Rhetoric
• Glossary
• Glossary of Linguistics and Rhetoric
• Glossary of Linguistics Terms
• A Glossary of Literary Terms and A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
• Glossary of Terms
• Glossary of Translation and Interpreting Terminology
• Idioms of the Bible
• Lexicon of Linguistics
• Linguistic glossary (SIL site)
• Linguistic Phenomena/Devices
• Literary Features
• Rhetoric Resources
• A Site Inspired By The Encyclopedia of New Testament Textual Criticism
• Translation theory (glossary)

Books

• Dictionary of Translation Studies, edited by Mark Shuttleworth and Moira Cowie, 1997. (amazon.com, to order)
• Translation Problems From A to Z, by Richard C. Blight

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