Table of Contents

Helle V. Dam and Jan Engberg : Introduction

Section 1: Theory and concepts
Andrew Chesterman: The memetics of knowledge
Torben Thrane: Representing interpreters' knowledge: Why, what, and how?
Walther von Hahn: Knowledge representation in machine translation
Annely Rothkegel: Knowledge and text types
Gerhard Budin: Ontology-driven translation management
Klaus Schubert: Translation studies: Broaden or deepen the perspective?

Section 2: Methodology
Daniel Gile: Empirical research into the role of knowledge in interpreting: methodological aspects
Arnt Lykke Jakobsen: Investigating expert translators' processing knowledge

Section 3: Empirical studies
Mary Snell-Hornby: Of catfish and blue bananas: scenes-and-frames semantics as a contrastive "knowledge system" for translation
Laura Sergo and Gisela Thome: Translation-related analysis of the textualisation of a knowledge system on the basis of Fauconnier's concept of mental spaces
Helle V. Dam, Jan Engberg, and Anne Schjoldager: Modelling semantic networks on source and target texts in consecutive interpreting: a contribution to the study of interpreters' notes
Young-Jin Kim: Cultural constellations in text and translation
Robin Setton: Pointing to contexts: a relevance-theoretic approach to assessing quality and difficulty in interpreting

About the Author

Helle V. Dam is Assistant Professor at the Aarhus School of Business, Denmark.

Jan Engberg is Professor at the Aarhus School of Business, Denmark.

Heidrun Gerzymisch-Arbogast is Professor at the University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany.