In this book, Jeremy Munday presents advances towards a general theory of evaluation in translator decision-making that will be useful to translator (and interpreter) training and to desciptive translation analysis.

Jeremy Munday is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Introducing Translation Studies, Translation: An Advanced Resource Book (with Basil Hatim) and Style and Ideology in Translation, all published by Routledge.

Introduction 1. Evaluation and Translation 2. The Interpretation of Political Speech 3. The View from the Technical Translators 4. The Literary Translator and Reviser 5. Translation Variation and its Link to Attitude 6. Evaluation in Translation - Some Concluding Thoughts