Aiming to bridge the gap between literary, general and special language translation, this work presents recently developed concepts and methods, both from translation theory and linguistics, in such a way that they could be employed in the theory, practice and analysis of literary studies.

1. Preface; 2. 0. Introduction; 3. 1. Translation studies as an independent discipline; 4. 1.1 Translation and traditional language study; 5. 1.2 Literary and linguistic orientations; 6. 1.3 Categorization and text-type; 7. 1.4 An integrated approach; 8. 2. Translation as a cross-cultural event; 9. 2.1 Language and culture; 10. 2.2 Recent translation theories; 11. 2.3 System, norm and text; 12. 2.4 Dimension and perspective; 13. 3. Translation, text and language; 14. 3.1 Linguistics and translation; 15. 3.2 Text analysis; 16. 3.3 Scenes-and-frames semantics; 17. 3.4 Speech acts and parallel texts; 18. 3.5 Dynamics in meaning; 19. 4. From special language to literary translation; 20. 4.1 The status of the source text; 21. 4.2 The factor of style; 22. 4.3 An integrated approach confirmed; 23. 5. Translation studies: future perspectives; 24. Appendix; 25. List of source texts; 26. List of dictionaries; 27. Bibliography