I-VIII -- Introduction -- 1 Lexical transfer -- Discourse and lexicalization -- Communicative transfer of metonymic reference -- On the mixing of conceptual metaphors -- Classifiers, metonymies, and genericity: A study of Vietnamese -- Comparing apples and pears: Latent Semantic Analysis -- 2 Transfer between languages -- Morning, noon and night: Denotational incongruencies between English and German -- Marked communication and cultural knowledge in lexis -- Integrating translation theory and translation practice -- Form symbolism across languages: Danish, Slovene, and Japanese -- 3 Transfer between functional varieties -- Metaphors in expert and common-sense reasoning -- Accurate fuzziness as constructive reduction in communication -- The misreporting of science: The debate about the Antarctic ozone hole -- Levels of abstraction in specialist concepts as a translation problem -- Index