The volume contains a selection of articles on current theoretical issues in Translation Studies and literary translation. The authors are experts in their fields from renowned universities in the world. The book will be an indispensable aid for trainers and researchers, but may be of interest to anyone interested or active in translation and interpreting. A companion volume in this series contains articles on audiovisual translation, translator training and domain-specific issues.

This book contains a selection of articles on new developments in translation and interpreting studies. It offers a wealth of new and innovative approaches to the didactics of translation and interpreting that may well change the way in which translators and interpreters are trained. They include such issues of current debate as assessment methods and criteria, assessment of competences, graduate employability, placements, skills labs, the perceived skills gap between training and profession, the teaching of terminology, and curriculum design. The authors are experts in their fields from renowned universities in Europe, Africa and North-America. The book will be an indispensable help for trainers and researchers, but may also be of interest to translators and interpreters.

The volume contains a selection of articles on current theoretical issues in audiovisual translation, translator training and domain-specific issues. The authors are experts in their fields from renowned universities in the world. The book will be an indispensable aid for trainers and researchers, but may be of interest to anyone interested or active in translation and interpreting. A companion volume in this series contains articles on Translation Studies and literary translation.

Contents: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk: Translation studies: Cognitive linguistics and corpora - Marcel Thelen: Translation studies: Terminology in theory and practice - Jeanne Dancette: Understanding translators' understanding - Kinga Klaudy: Specification and generalisation of meaning in translation - Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk: Re-conceptualization and the emergence of discourse meaning as a theory of translation - Wolfgang Loerscher: Form- and sense-oriented approaches to translation revisited - Peter Newmark: Translation and culture (dedicated now to the dear memory of a fine translation teacher and translation critic Gunilla Anderson) - Christiane Nord: Text function and meaning in Skopos-oriented translation - Anthony Pym: Discursive persons and the limits of translation - Mary Snell-Hornby: Word against text. Lexical semantics and translation theory (Revisited) - Sonja Tirkkonen-Condit: Prototype definition of translation revisited - Gideon Toury: What's the problem with 'translation problem'? - Christiane Fellbaum: Translating with a semantic net: Matching words and concepts - Ernst-August Gutt: Relevance: A key to quality assessment in translation - Mildred Larson: Translating secondary functions of grammatical structure - Adrienne Lehrer: Problems in the translation of creative neologisms - Albrecht Neubert: Translation contextualised. How electronic text worlds are revolutionising the context of translation - Eugene Nida: Future trends in the Bible translating - Rita Temmerman: Why special language translators need insight into the mechanisms of metaphorical models and figurative denominations - Marcel Thelen: Translating figurative language revisited: Towards a framework for the interpretation of the image behind figurative language as a first step in the translation process - Anna Bednarczyk: Intersemiotic dominant of translation - Lukasz Bogucki: The demise of voice-over? Audiovisual translation in Poland in the 21st century - Mona Baker: Linguistics and the training of translators and interpreters - Belinda Maia: The role of translation theory in the teaching of general and non-literary translation - revisited.y