constructing pathways to translation - Higher Education Commission

otherwise, but caution must be exercised, lest the receivers processing becomes
overloaded to the point of undermining communication.
Every text is at least somewhat informative; no matter how predictable form and context
may be, there will always be a few variable occurrences that cannot be foreseen.
Particularly low informativity is likely to be disturbing, causing boredom, and even
rejection of the text.
The sixth standard of textuality can be designated Situationality, and concerns the factors
which make a text relevant to a situation of occurrence. Situationality affects the means
of cohesion.
The seventh standard of textuality is to be called Intertextuality and concerns the factors
which make the utilization of one text dependent upon knowledge of one or more
previously encountered texts.
Intertextuality is responsible for the evolution of text types and classes of text, with
typical patterns of characteristics like parodies, critical reviews, rebuttals, or reports.
All these standards function as constitutive Principles of textual communication. They
define and create the form of behavior identifiable as textual communication, and if they
are defied, that form of behavior will break down.
2.4 THE PROCEDURAL APPROACH: Production and Reception of
the Text
The Text figures as the actual outcome of different operations. A text cannot be
explained as configuration of morphemes or sentences. On the other hand, morphemes
and sentences function as operational units and patterns for signalling meanings and
purposes during communication.
In order to understand language, the procedural approach has to be adopted, in which the
decisive criterion is human operationality and human plausibility. The intuition’s
threshold or termination, of linguistics are heuristic, and the validity of theories and
models are demonstrated from natural human activities.
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