Author Description

1. Functional language typology: SFL perspectives / J. R. Martin (The University of Sydney, Australia) and Beatriz Quiroz (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile) -- 2. Textual instantiation, the notion of "readings of texts" as translation agency / Erich Steiner (Universität des Saarlandes, Germany) -- 3. Register and translation / Stella Neumann (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) -- 4. Systemic functional linguistics as a framework for the analysis of translator/interpreter intervention / Jeremy Munday (University of Leeds, UK) -- 5. Corpus-based translation studies and systemic functional linguistics / Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski (Universität des Saarlandes, Germany) -- 6. A descriptive study on Chinese-English translation choices for logical meanings / Xueying Li (Hangzhou Dianzi University, China) and Mira Kim (The University of New South Wales, Australia) -- 7. 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 (King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia) -- 8. SFL at the heart of translator training: an experimental case study within Applied translation studies / Sami J. Althumali (Taif University, Saudi Arabia) -- 9. A translated volume and its many covers: a social-semiotic, diachronic study of translated book covers / Long Li (The University of New South Wales, Australia) -- 10. Shifting the gaze to the paradigm: translation as tool for multilingual studies / Giacomo Figueredo (The Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil).