TEXT TYPOLOGY AND TRANSLATION -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- References -- Part I. Methodology -- Text Typology: Register, Genre and Text Type -- Introduction -- Text and discourse -- Register -- Genre -- Text types cutting across registers and genres -- Concluding comments -- Notes -- References -- Text Types and Translation -- Introduction -- The interpretations of "equivalence" -- An approach to translation based on communication theory -- New types of translations and translation-related work -- A Typology of translations -- Notes -- References -- A Functional Typology of Translations -- Introduction: The crux of equivalence -- Functionalism + loyalty as an alternative model -- The notion of function -- Planning the translation process -- Conclusion -- References -- Text-Type Conventions and Translating: Some Methodological Issues -- Introduction -- Some basic concepts -- Macrostructures -- Microstructures -- By way of consclusion: Consequences for translation -- Bibliography -- Approaches to Literary Genres -- Text Types and Power Relations -- The power of the source -- Translation in context -- The case of the sonnet -- The Norse saga -- Difference and translation -- Notes -- References -- Description and Criticism: Some Approaches to the English Translations of Hans Christian Andersen -- The problems -- The translations -- Approaches -- Reading the text -- Pragmatics -- Puns -- Idioms -- Pseudo-idioms -- Conclusion: Description versus criticism -- Notes -- References -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Part II. Domain- and Genre-Specific Texts -- Strategies of Translating Political Texts -- Politics and translation -- Diplomatic discourse in multinational institutions -- Speeches and statements by politicians -- Politically relevant texts by non-politicians -- Conclusion -- Notes.

References -- Appendix: Analysed texts -- Translating Hybrid Political Texts -- Introduction -- EU documents -- Hybrid texts as primary communication -- Notes -- References -- Translation of Medical Research Articles -- Introduction -- Medical translation: Contrastive studies -- The medical research paper -- Conclusion -- References -- Translation of Technical Brochures -- Introduction -- LSP and translation -- Technical brochures seen from linguistics and marketing theory -- Speech acts and text functions in technical brochures -- Actional aspects in translation -- Conclusion -- References -- Translating Legal Genres -- Complexities of translation process -- Genre analysis -- A genre-based approach to translation -- Legislative discourse -- Easification as intra-lingual translation -- References -- Part III. Terminology and Lexicon -- Synonymy and Equivalence in Special-language Texts A Case Study in German and English Texts on Genetic Engineering -- Introduction -- Synonymy and Equivalence -- Terms and text -- Method -- Results and Analysis -- Notes -- References -- Reference Corpora and Lexicons for Translators and Translation Studies -- Introduction -- Electronic dictionaries -- Corpus linguistics and the development of reference corpora -- The bilingual lexical database system -- The bilingual text management and query system -- The workstation -- Notes -- References -- Dictionaries -- Texts Types and Medium -- Written to be Spoken: The Audio-Medial Text in Translation -- Text-type and translation method -- The poetic text: the radio play and the Bible as liturgy -- The academic lecture -- The audio-medial text and simultaneous interpreting -- Notes -- References -- Dubbing and the Dubbed Text - Style and Cohesion: Textual Characteristics of a Special Form of Translation -- Introduction -- Lip sync and nucleus sync as constraints in dubbing.

The scope of the analysis -- Film language as spoken language: text typological considerations -- The unnaturalness of dubbed text -- Stylistic features of dubbed text -- Cohesion in dubbed texts -- Anglicisms -- Textual characteristics of films dubbed into German -- The characteristics of dubbed text and the translation process -- Notes -- References -- Quality Revisited: The Rendering of English Idioms in Danish Television Subtitles vs. Printed Translations -- Subtitling in a historical perspective -- Subtitling defined -- Constraints, strengths, and intra-textuality -- Idioms at large -- How fixed are idioms? -- How opaque are idioms? -- Translating idioms -- A great divide: three modes of translation -- Typologies and strategies -- The pilot study -- "Last Bus to Woodstock": One title, four texts -- Examples of strategies found in the novel translation and the TV subtitles -- "LAST BUS TO WOODSTOCK": THE NOVEL -- "LAST BUS TO WOODSTOCK": THE TV FILM -- Explanations to Table 4 -- Facts and interpretations: individual texts -- General conclusion -- Idioms: Coming in from the cold -- Notes -- References -- Index -- The series Benjamins Translation Library.