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repertoreme

repertoreme noun: a unit of a cultural or linguistic repertoire.

Noun

repertoreme (plural repertoremes)

  1. A unit of a cultural or linguistic repertoire.
    • In our exemplary case, that of the tension between textemes and repertoremes, this may imply the promotion of the "adequate" option which, even though often advocated by teachers and critics, proved to be marginal in actual practice, namely 'to replace SL-text textemes by ad hoc combinations of...1991, Kitty M. van Leuven-Zwart, Antonius Bernardus Maria Naaijkens, Translation Studies: The State of the Art, →ISBN
    • When a repertoreme is retrieved from the repertoire it is part of and is put to actual use (i.e., inserted in a particular text, in the most general sense of the word), it enters into a unique network of internal relations, peculiar to that act/text.1995, Gideon Toury, Descriptive Translation Studies and Beyond, →ISBN, page 268

Forms of repertoreme

pluralrepertoremes

Origin of repertoreme

From repertoire + -eme.

Questions about repertoreme

What does repertoreme mean?
Repertoreme means a unit of a cultural or linguistic repertoire.
What part of speech is repertoreme?
Repertoreme is a noun.
What is the plural of repertoreme?
The plural of repertoreme is repertoremes.

Words near repertoreme in the dictionary

  1. repertible
  2. repertitious
  3. repertoire
  4. repertoires
  5. repertor
  6. repertoreme
  7. repertoremes
  8. repertorial
  9. repertories
  10. repertors
  11. repertory

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