Words, Words, Words. The Translator and the Language

Gunilla Anderman is Director of the Programme in Translation Studies at the University of Surrey and the Chair of the Education and Training Committee for the Institute of Translation and Interpreting. Having gained her PhD in theoretical linguistics, she has been a foreign language teacher and teacher of translation and linguistics for many years. A professional translator of drama, her recent publications have concerned the role of speech act theory in the translation of dialogue. Margaret Rogers is Deputy Director of the Programme in Translation Studies at the University of Surrey. As a trained foreign language teacher she gained her PhD in applied linguistics. She has been a co-manager of a number of European projects at the University. Her recent publications have been concerned with the role of theoretical linguistics in interpreting second language data, and the role of grammar in the second language classroom.

• Preface 1. Gunilla Anderman and Margaret Rogers: The Translator and the Language Learner: Linguistics Revisited2. Jean Aitchison: Taming the Wilderness: Words in the Mental Lexicon3. Paul Meara: The Classical Research in L2 Vocabulary Acquisition4. Gunilla Anderman: The Word is My Oyster: The Language Learner and the Translator5. Peter Newmark: Looking at English Words in Translation6. John Ayto: Lexical Innovation: Neologism and Dictionaries7. Margaret Rogers: Beyond the Dictionary: The Translator, the L2 Learner and the Computer