Conceiving of language as a resource for creating meaning, systemic functional linguistics (SFL) offers a comprehensive, applicable model for discourse analysis. SFL has been used by scholars in Translation Studies (TS) for over three decades, inspiring many theoretical perspectives and empirical studies and generating fruitful research on various topics (e.g., Steiner and Yallop 2001). The edited volume under review presents current developments in the intersecting fields of SFL and TS, foregrounding key issues and acknowledging challenges in integrating them. It consists of ten chapters that bring together world-leading scholars in SFL and TS, reflecting a strong interdisciplinary awareness and a broad methodological scope. Its aim is to demonstrate the value and potential of working at the interface of SFL and TS and to chart a new research agenda for further collaboration.

References

De Souza, Ladjane Marie Farias

2013 “Interlingual Re-instantiation – A New Systemic Functional Perspective on Translation.” Text & Talk 33 (4–5): 575–594.

Halliday, Michael A. K., and Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen

2014 Halliday’s Introduction to Functional Grammar. 4th ed. Abingdon: Routledge.

Kress, Gunther, and Theo van Leeuwen

2006 Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design. 2nd ed. London: Routledge.

Martin, James R., and Peter R. R. White

2005 The Language of Evaluation: Appraisal in English. Basingstoke: Macmillan.

Steiner, Erich, and Colin Yallop

eds. 2001 Exploring Translation and Multilingual Text Production: Beyond Content. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Toury, Gideon

2012 Descriptive Translation Studies – and Beyond. Rev. ed. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.