Ernst-August Gutt (2000), Translation and Relevance: Cognition and Context, 2nd edition, Manchester: St. Jerome — DOI-10.4324/9781315760018
Key takeaways
Filed, not read. Known here by what it is standardly cited for: Gutt applies relevance theory to translation, treating it as interpretive use of language across languages, in which the translation is to resemble the original interpretively, enough to be adequately relevant to its audience. He distinguishes direct translation, which preserves the original’s communicative clues, from indirect translation.
Standing in the record
Filed on 2026-10-09 at the owner’s request, as one of the works in the reference list of the owner’s working manuscript (October 2026) that the record did not yet hold. See the curation entry of that day.
Unavailable because no lawful full text of the book could be reached (see the
history note), so no NOTE is filed. One lawful route to the argument exists
but is not the book: Gutt’s 1989 University of London thesis of the same
title, listed as open access at UCL Discovery. Reading it would be a reading
of the thesis, filed as its own work, not of this book.