TRAINING THE TRANSLATOR -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. What goes on in the translator's mind? -- 1.1 Types of empirical research -- 1.2 Methodological problems with think-aloud protocols -- 1.2.1 Choice of subjects -- 1.2.2 Elicitation methods -- 1.2.3 Explanatory models and text material -- 1.3 Some unsuccessful mental processes: Symptoms and diagnoses -- 1.3.1 Interferences -- 1.3.2 Fear of interferences -- 1.3.3 Faulty one-to-one correspondences -- 1.3.4 Misuse of bilingual dictionaries -- 1.3.5 Misuse of world knowledge and one's own experiences -- 13.6 Incomplete paraphrasing -- 1.4 Desirable attitudes: self-awareness and self-confidence -- 1.5 Error analysis revisited -- Chapter 2. Creativity in translation -- 2.1 Point of departure -- 2.2 Cognition and the four-phase model -- 2.3 Fluency of thinking -- 2.4 Divergent thinking -- 2.5 Emotions -- 2.6 Evaluation -- 2.7 Teaching creative translation -- Chapter 3. Pragmatic analysis -- 3.0 Overview -- 3.1 Situational dimensions -- 3.2 Communicative functions of utterances, texts and translations -- 3.3 The cultural background -- 3.4 Pragmatics and text types -- 3.5 Instruction leaflets and manuals - a case study -- 3.6 Some didactic implications -- Chapter 4. The analysis of meaning -- 4.0 Overview -- 4.1 Meaning, comprehension and translation -- 4.2 "Bedroom" - a prototypical case -- 4.3 Similar Cases -- 4.4 "Lexical gaps" and how to fill them -- 4.5 Teaching meaning, comprehension and translation -- Chapter 5. Text analysis and the use of dictionaries -- 5.1 Harmony between monolingual dictionaries and context -- 5.2 Problems with examples -- 5.3 Dictionary versus context -- 5.4 Unusual use -- 5.5 Stylistic labels -- 5.6 Teaching the use of dictionaries -- Chapter 6. Evaluation and errors.

6.1 Opposing views among teachers of translation -- 6.2 Categories for evaluation -- 6.2.1 Cultural adequacy -- 6.2.2 Situational adequacy -- 6.2.3 Speech acts -- 6.2.4 Meaning of words -- 6.2.5 "Language errors" -- 6.3 Source text defects -- Chapter 7. A summary of strategies -- 7.1 The rational approach -- 7.2 Solving translation problems -- 7.3 Evaluating translations -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Author Index.