Communication across cultures : translation theory and contrastive text linguistics / Basil Hatim.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Arabic Transliteration System -- Ch. 1. Contrastive linguistic decisions: the need for textual competence -- Ch. 2. Foundation disciplines -- Ch. 3. The myth of the single register -- Ch. 4. Argumentation across cultures -- Ch. 5. Argumentation in Arabic rhetoric -- Ch. 6. The paragraph as a unit of text structure -- Ch. 7. Background information in expository texts -- Ch. 8. At the interface between structure and texture: the textual progression of themes and rhemes -- Ch. 9. Cataphora as a textural manifestation -- Ch. 10. Degree of texture explicitness -- Ch. 11. Emotiveness in texts -- Ch. 12. Translating direct speech and the dynamics of news reporting -- Ch. 13. The pragmatics of politeness -- Ch. 14. Cultures in contact -- Ch. 15. The discourse of the alienated -- Ch. 16. The translation of irony: a discourse perspective -- Ch. 17. The 'other' texts: implications for liaison interpreting -- Glossary of Contrastive Text Linguistics and Translation Terms.