Basil Hatim and Ian Mason (1990), London and New York: Longman (Language in Social Life series), xiv, 258 pp. — DOI-10.4324/9781315846583 (Routledge reissue, 2014)
Key takeaways
Filed, not read: no lawful full text was reachable (see the history note). What follows restates the publisher’s description and contents.
- The publisher’s description: the book “both incorporates and moves beyond previous studies of translation”, drawing on sociolinguistics, discourse studies, pragmatics and semiotics to analyse translation in its social contexts, and presents the translator as a mediator between cultures.
- Contents, from the publisher’s page: 1. Issues and Debates in Translation Studies; 2. Linguistics and Translators: Theory and Practice; 3. Context in Translating: Register Analysis; 4. Translating and Language as Discourse; 5. Translating Text as Action: The Pragmatic Dimension of Context; 6. Translating Texts as Signs: The Semiotic Dimension of Context; 7. Intertextuality and Intentionality; 8. Text Type as the Translator’s Focus; 9. Prose Designs: Text Structure in Translation; 10. Discourse Texture; 11. The Translator as Mediator; glossary, list of texts quoted, bibliography, index.
Standing in the record
Filed on 2026-10-09 from the manuscript bibliography of 2026-10-09 (work
what-survives-translation) at the owner’s request: the manuscript
considered it and dropped it from the final reference list. See the
curation entry of that day.
Deferred because it was not read. Of the translation-theory works filed
that day, only Jakobson’s essay (LIT-786) could be read.