Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-178) and index.
Translation as means or end-as imitation or creation -- Translation: An introduction survey -- Translation today: The wider aspects of translation -- Translation for language teaching and professional purpose -- The use of systemic linguistic in translation -- The virtue of interference and the vices of translationese -- Word and text: Words and their degree of context in translation -- Translation and Mis-translation: The review, the revision, and the appraisal of a translation -- Pragmatic translation and literalism -- Teaching about translation -- The translation of political language -- Translation as an instrument of linguistic, cultural and literary criticism.