Since it was first established in the
1970s,theapplied linguestics and language atudy series bas become
amajor force in the study of practical problems in hunman
communication and language education.drawing extensively on
empirical research and theoretical work in
linguistics.sociology.psychology and education.the series expores
key issues in language acquisition and language use.
A feeling of unease presantly exists about the treatment of
translation by translation theorists on the one hand and linguists
on the other.translation theorists have made little systematic use
of the techniques and insights of contemporry linguistics and
linguists have been at best neutral to the theory of
translation,this volume argues that the subjective evaluation of
the product of translatingmust give way to a deseriptive and
objective attempt to reveal the workings of the process without
this shift,translation theory will continue to fall outside the
mainstream of intellectual activity in the human seiences and fil
to take its rightful place as a major field in applied
linguisttics.
roger bell is professor of linguistics and associate head of the
school of languages at the polytechnic of central london.