Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Speech Acts and Illocutionary Function in Translation Methodology -- 2. Cooperation and Literary Translation -- 3. Pragmatic Aspects of Translation: Some Relevance-Theory Observations -- 4. Politeness and Translation -- 5 Text Politeness: A Semiotic Regime for a More interactive Pragmatics -- 6. 'New' versus 'old' -- 7 Presupposition and Translation -- 8 Deictic Features and the Translator -- 9 Verb Substitution and Predicate Reference -- 10 Discourse Connectives, Ellipsis and Markedness -- 11 Hedges in Political Texts: A Translational Perspective -- 12 Translating the Pragmatics of Verse in 'Andromaque' -- 13. Perlocutionary Equivalence: Marking, Exegesis and Recontextualisation -- Index