Contents: Linguistic Variation in Texts, Translation, and the Notion of Register - Pre-translational Text Analysis - Translation Evaluation - Intralingual and Interlingual Versions of Texts - The Relative Importance of Systemic Contrasts and of the Text-type «Translation» - Tools and Electronic Corpora for Research.
The Author: Erich Steiner, born in Heidelberg, studied in Freiburg im Breisgau and Saarbrücken, extensive research and teaching experience in London, Cardiff, Houston, Los Angeles, Darmstadt and Sydney. Holder of the Chair of English Linguistics and Translation Studies in Saarbrücken. Main areas of research: comparative and contrastive function linguistics, translation, electronic tools for language processing.