Essays in translation, pragmatics and semiotics

This book contains papers based on lectures given at the course on "Pragmatics in Translation" organized by the Multilingual Communication Programme (MonAKO) of the University of Helsinki during aurumn 2000. The invited speakers represented a variety of views on translation research and its relation to pragmatics and semiotics. The papers published in this collection of themes on aspects of translation and interpretation, as related to their "sister disciplines" of pragmatics and semiotics.