Cognitive Linguistics and Translation Studies

Editors Ana Rojo and Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano have put together a fantastic resource that, in my view, translation studies scholars will have to deal with. Its been out since 2013, but in June the paperback version will be released for $25. Here's a quote from the first chapter:

"Translation and linguistics have always held a love-hate relationship. On the one hand, their relationship has been marked by an irresistible attraction; translation scholars have searched linguistic works for concepts and principles suitable to be applied to translation, and linguists have found in translation an excellent source of examples for language teaching and the contrastive study of language. On the other hand, this attraction has at times turned into mutual dislike; linguists have looked down on translation as a type of second-class language activity which they have long considered inadequate as a language teaching method and too complex to reveal reliable data on linguistic communication. Meanwhile, translation scholars have reacted to this patronising attitude of linguists with a mutual scornful stance which has highlighted the inability of linguistics to account for the cultural and cognitive aspects of translation. In this section, we describe the evolution of this love-hate relationship in order to show that the principles of Cognitive Linguistics can provide a suitable meeting point where linguistics and translation can finally forget their differences and start working together towards a cognitive theory of language and translation." Rojo and Ibarretxe-Antuñano (2013:3-4)