This book is for students of translation, languages and linguistics who would like to enhance their understanding of the relationships between these areas of study. The book uses explanation, discussion and practice to make explicit the forms of knowledge of language and of translation that makes translators successful.

Chapters on the development of translation studies in the west and on contemporary approaches to translation provide the disciplinary context within which the processes and products of translating are studied. Five practical chapters cover sounds and rhythms, lexis, collocation and semantic prosody, texture, register, cohesion, coherence, implicature, speech and text acts, texts and genre analysis, clausal thematicity and transitivity and the expression through language choices of ideological positions.

Features: • Each chapter includes examples for analysis from a variety of text types, including poems, prose, drama, newspaper and journal articles, promotional materials and texts for tourists. • Examples are drawn mainly from Danish, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, but most practice sections can be used for analysis and translation into any language from English • The book can be used at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Kirsten Malmkjaer, Professor of Translation Studies and Head of the Centre for Research in Translation, Middlesex University

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