This book is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the study of translation. This revised edition includes two new chapters on culturally embedded concepts and translation in global business.

Juliane House is Professor Emerita of Applied Linguistics at the University of Hamburg. She is the author of Translation Quality Assessment: Past and Present (Routledge, 2015) and Translation as Communication across Languages and Cultures (Routledge, 2016).

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1: Basic Issues in the Field of Translation; Chapter 1: What is Translation?; Chapter 2: Translation Competence; Chapter 3: Looking at Translation from Different Perspectives; Chapter 4: Culture and Ideology in Translation; Part 2: Some Much-Discussed Concepts in Translation Theory; Chapter 5: Possibilities and Impossibilities of Translation; Chapter 6: Universals of Translation?; Chapter 7: How Do we Know When a Translation is Good?; Part 3: Some Important New Trends in Translation Studies; Chapter 8: What goes on in Translators' Heads when They are Translating?; Chapter 9: Using Corpora in Translation Studies; Chapter 10: Translation in the Age of Globalization and Digitalization; Part 4: Translation in the Real World; Chapter 11: Translation as a Communicative Practice in Globalized Business; Chapter 12: Can Culturally Embedded Concepts Really be Appropriately Translated?; Chapter 13: The Role of Translation in Language Learning and Teaching; Chapter 14: Translation as a Social Practice in Real-Life Situations; Glossary; References; Index