From the Chinese perspective, looking at translation studies’ development of new, serious interests in social and cultural issues make translators or translator-trainers more sensitive to structural means available for textual management and, if necessary, more coherent in explaining why a specific textual choice is made in translation, among the many possibilities present in a sociocultural situation within a linguistic system adopts an issue-driven, phenomenon-focused and theorization-oriented approach with strong implications for teaching and practice of translation. As such,...