Contents -- Part I. Theoretical Orientation -- Introduction -- Towards a theory of good translation -- What can linguistics learn from translation? -- The environments of translation -- Part II. Modeling translation -- How do we know when a translation is good? -- Intralingual and interlingual versions of a text - how specific is the notion of translation? -- Towards a model for the description of cross-linguistic divergence and commonality in translation -- The construction of equivalence -- Part III. Working with translation and multilingual texts: computational and didactic projects -- Teaching translation -- Computer assisted text analysis and translation: a functional approach in the analysis and translation of advertising texts -- Translation, controlled languages, generation -- Author Index -- Subject Index.