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De Beaugrand and Dressler suggested an approach to help you find out. They
set out 'Seven Standards of Textuality' and hypothesized that, if any one of
them was not met, the text would not be communicative:
The Seven Standards of Textuality
1. Cohesion 4. Acceptability
2. Coherence 5. Informativity
3. Intentionality 6. Situationality
7. Intertextuality
Intertextuality recognises that all texts contain traces of other texts. Writers
may wish to emit echoes of certain texts, though, readers may pick up these
or others that they have read.
Christiane Nord
The role of a translator
TRANSLATOR