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A. Concept and theory The concept of T. encompasses various forms of recoding a text from an original to a target language. Two criteria are of particular importance to the specific design of a T. [24.61–71]: (a) the 'purpose' of the T. in the broadest sense, i.e. the matter of the addressee of the T. and its intended aim; (b) the intended degree of correspondence or 'equivalence' between the T. and the original text [41]. A T. may, for instance, 'literally' imitate the grammatical structure in the target language (so-called morphematic T.: formal grammatical equiva…