This book presents a work tool that scientifically and practically concentrates on goals, tasks, methods, contents, materials and the institutional and historical conditions of translation and interpreting. The book contains 114 articles, covering subjects ranging from machine translation, professional associations, the market situation for translators and conference interpreters, translator and interpreter training, curriculum models, an overview of the different forms of interpreting, specific text genres and other topics. Didactic aspects are considered, as well as the assessment of translation performance.