Based on a symposium and workshop held at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, in November 2016, and at a subsequent conference in 2017 at the Martin Centre for Appliable Linguistics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China

Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 239-242)

Introduction / Mira Kim, Jeremy Munday, Zhenhua Wang and Pin Wang -- Functional Language Typology: SFL Perspectives / J. R. Martin and Beatriz Quiroz -- Textual Instantiation, The Notion of "Readings of Texts" as Translation Agency / Erich Steiner -- Register and Translation / Stella Neumann -- Systemic Functional Linguistics as a Framework for the Analysis of Translator/Interpreter Intervention / Jeremy Munday -- Corpus-Based Translation Studies and Systemic Functional Linguistics, / Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski -- A Descriptive Study on Chinese-English Translation Choices for Logical Meanings / Xueying Li and Mira Kim -- Modality, Point of View and Translation : A Systemic Functional Analysis of the Arabic Translations of J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians / Komail AL Herz -- SFL at the Heart of Translator Training: An Experimental Case Study within Applied Translation Studies / Sami J. Althumali -- A Translated Volume and its Many Covers: A Social-Semiotic, Diachronic Study of Translated Book Covers / Long Li -- Shifting the Gaze to the Paradigm: Translation as Tool for Multilingual Studies / Giacomo Figueredo

"The field of translation studies has grown rapidly over recent decades, with critical questions being investigated across the globe. Drawing together this scattered research, Systemic Functional Linguistics in Translation Studies consolidates important propositions by drawing on systemic functional linguistics (SFL). Using the SFL dimensions of stratification, rank, axis and delicacy to show how languages are more similar or more different, this book provides a state-of-the-art critical assessment of the interaction between SFL and translation studies. Highlighting the major contribution SFL can make in developing translation theories, a team of world-leading experts investigate how intricate and wide-ranging translation questions, such as re-instantiation and multimodality, can be most efficiently explored through a detailed meaning- and function-oriented linguistic theory. Examining the theoretical concepts and practical applications of SFL in the translation of a range of languages, including Arabic, Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese, Systemic Functional Linguistics in Translation Studies provides a stimulus for new work spanning the two fields and suggests new directions for future research"--