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Accessory meaning structures mainly help in the formatting and
organization of textual elements, thus holding them together.
A week later, the second session was held and photocopies of an
excerpt from 'The Journal of Strategic Studies' were handed out to the
informants. They were told to read the text thoroughly, identify the
three layers of meaning, and eventually translate the given text into
Arabic. Ample time was given them to finish their translations which
were then collected and assessed from the standpoint of our model. The
text is a non-literary one. It is entitled 'The Evolving Military
Balance in the Taiwan Strait'. It stretches over two paragraphs only
composed of five sentences; three in the first paragraph and two in the
second. The succession of layers of meaning is almost uninterrupted,
with no conceivable deviation or digression. The informants'
translations, having been studied thoroughly, have shown the following
results:
a) All informants could easily identify the OMCCs, considering
sentence 4 as a summing-up.
b) Three informants considered sentences 1, 2 and 3 as OMCCs and
sentence 4 as a redundancy.
c) Two informants considered sentences 1 and 2 as OMCCs, and the other
sentences as redundancies.
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