Thinking Spanish Translation Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	Preliminaries to translation as a process	5
2	Preliminaries to translation as a product	12
3	Cultural issues in translation; compromise and compensation	20
4	The formal properties of texts: phonic/graphic and prosodic problems in translating	42
5	The formal properties of texts: grammatical and lexical issues in translation	61
6	The formal properties of texts: sentential, inter-sentential and intertextual issues in translating	72
7	Literal meaning and translation problems	83
8	Connotative meaning and translation problems	98
9	Language variety in texts: dialect, sociolect, code-switching	110
10	Language variety in texts: social register and tonal register	118
11	Textual genre as a factor in translation: oral and written genres	127
12	Genre marking and the crossover between oral and written genres	141
13	Technical translation	154
14	Translation of consumer-oriented texts	163
15	Stylistic editing	176
16	Contrastive topic and practical: subjunctive expressing purpose/aim versus indicative result/effect	187
17	Contrastive topic and practical: orders and requests	192
18	Contrastive topic and practical: pronominalization	198
19	Contrastive topic and practical: passive and impersonal constructions	207
20	Summary and conclusion	214
	Glossary	219
	References	226
	Index	229