Table of contents
Prefacevii
0. Introduction1
1. Translation studies as an independent discipline7
1.1 Translation and traditional language study7
1.2 Literary and linguistic orientations8
1.3 Categorization and text-type26
1.4 An integrated approach31
2. Translation as a cross-cultural event39
2.1 Language and culture39
2.2 Recent translation theories43
2.3 System, norm and text49
2.4 Dimension and perspective52
3. Translation, text and language65
3.1 Linguistics and translation65
3.2 Text analysis69
3.3 Scenes-and-frames semantics79
3.4 Speech acts and parallel texts86
3.5 Dynamics in meaning93
4. From special language to literary translation111
4.1 The status of the source text111
4.2 The factor of style119
4.3 An integrated approach confirmed129
5. Translation studies: future perspectives131
Appendix135
List of source texts147
List of dictionaries149
Bibliography151
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