Acknowledgements
Introduction: Style in Translation
I. The Role of Style in Translation
1.1 Reading and writing style in translation
1.2 Before stylistics: the spirit of a text
1.3 Universals of style and creative transposition
1.4 Contextual, pragmatic and cognitive aspects of style
and translation
1.5 Relativity and thinking for translation
1.6 Translating literary and non-literary texts
2. Theories of Reading and Relevance
2.1 Reading, style and the inferred author
2.2 Implication, relevance and minimax
2.3 Relevance theory and translating for relevance
3. The Translator''s Choices
3.1 Style and choice
3.2 Clues, games and decisions
3.3 Recreated choices in translation
4. Cognitive Stylistics and Translation
4.1 The cognitive turn in stylistics and translation
studies
4.2 Translating the mind in the text
4.3 Ambiguity and textual gaps
4.4 Foregrounding, salience and visibility
4.5 Metaphor, mind and translation
4.6 Iconicity, mimesis and diagesis
4.7 Cognitive stylistics and the pretence of translation
5. A Stylistic Approach in Practice
5.1 Elements of a stylistic approach to translation
5.2 Using style to translate mind
5.3 Ambiguous translation
5.4 Attracting attention: patterns and other deviant
structures
5.5 Metaphorical thought translated
5.6 Keeping the echo: translating for iconicity
6. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index