... Additionally, the Greek term for “translation,” metaphrasis (a “speaking across”), has supplied English with “metaphrase,” meaning a literal, or word-for-word, translation, as contrasted with “paraphrase” ... “paraphrase” (a “saying in other words,” from the Greek paraphrasis). According to Larson, a famous linguistician: “Translation is a process based on the theory that it is possible to abstract ... abstract the meaning of a text from its forms and reproduce that meaning with the very different forms of a second language. Translation, then, consists of studying the lexicon, grammatical...