The Metalanguage of Translation -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- How about meta? -- References -- Defining patterns in Translation Studies -- 1. Some remarks on the metadiscourse on definitions in Translation Studies -- 2. Definition theory in the philosophy of science -- 3. Definition theory in terminology -- 4. Special aspects of scientific concepts -- 5. Scientific concepts and definitional practice -- 6. Definitions in analysis -- 7. Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Résumé -- Risking conceptual maps -- 1. Making bibliographies on translation and Translation Studies -- 2. Mapping -- 3. Looking at a neighbour -- 4. The TSB map(s), or parts thereof -- 5. Concluding remark -- Note -- References -- Résumé -- Polysemy and synonymy -- 1. Dictionaries and encyclopedias and the case study terms and concepts -- 1.1 Dictionaries and encyclopedias of translation and Translation Studies -- 1.2 Case study terms and concepts -- 2. Polysemy and synonymy in Translation Studies dictionaries -- 2.1 Coherence as a polysemic term and concept in Translation Studies -- 2.2 Documentary/instrumental - overt/covert - interlingual interpretive/interlingual descriptive - direct/indirect: synonymous pairs of concepts? -- 2.3 Perspectives -- 3. Polysemy and synonymy in translator training -- 3.1 Working with a translation commission -- 3.2 Working with evaluation criteria -- 3.3 Perspectives -- Notes -- References -- Résumé -- The terminology of translation -- 1. Terminological chaos in Translation Studies: Extent and reasons -- 2. The concept of 'translation technique' or 'shift' -- 3. The social consequences of terminological chaos -- 4. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Résumé -- Natural and directional equivalence in theories of translation -- Parable -- 1. Introduction to a historical location.

2. Equivalence as a concept -- 3. Equivalence vs. langue -- 4. Directional vs. natural equivalence -- 5. Strategies for maintaining natural equivalence -- 6. Strategies for attaining directional equivalence -- 7. Equivalence as back-reference -- 8. Only two categories? -- 9. Relevance theory -- 10. Equivalence as an illusion -- 11. A problem not solved -- Note -- References -- Résumé -- A literary work - Translation and original -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Different notions of 'literary work of art' and 'identity' in the philosophy of art -- 2.1 Ontology and the identity of literary works -- 2.2 One work but two authors: A paradoxical way of defining identity -- 2.3. Two different interpretations, two different works: A more ordinary view of identity -- 2.4 To be 'identical' with a mental entity, with a work of art proper -- 2.5 A synthesis of views of identity -- 3. 'Translatability' from the perspective of art philosophy -- 4. 'Translatability' of literary works in the light of translation theories -- 4.1 Irrelevance of identity: Translation and original, sets of textual practices -- 4.2 Identity - literariness from original to translation in binary oppositions -- 4.3 Translatability as one possible skopos -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Résumé -- "What's in a name?" -- 1. How normative are norms? -- 2. New coinage - or new lease of life? -- 3. Handbuch Translation -- 4. Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Résumé -- In defence of fuzziness -- 1. Terminology and power -- 2. Mother tongue -- 3. Native speaker -- 4. Translating into a non-mother tongue? -- 5. Conceptual diversity: An added value -- References -- Résumé -- The metalanguage of localization -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Localization: Practical considerations -- 2.1 The birth of a new industry and its evolution -- 2.2 The new working environment -- 2.3 The GILT industry.

3. Localization: Theoretical considerations -- 3.1 Translation as part of localization -- 3.2 Localization as part of translation -- 3.3 Glocalization -- 4. Conclusions -- Note -- References -- Résumé -- The metalanguage of translation -- 1. Before the mid-1980s -- 2. From the mid-1980s onwards -- 3. Behind the paradigm shifts -- 4. Local knowledge as a complementary supplement -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Résumé -- Translation terminology and its offshoots -- 1. A project in many different languages -- 2. Motivation and objectives -- 3. Working process -- 4. Selection of terms and examples -- 5. Translation/adaptation -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Résumé -- Index -- The series Benjamins Current Topics.