Book excerpt: Kinga Klaudy has obtained international reputation for original work in translation studies and has become widely recognized as one of the most distinguished scholars of the field. This book is dedicated to her as an expression of the gratitude and respect her students, colleagues, and fellow researchers feel for all her work and devotion. The studies in this volume draw on recent research, presenting arguments for promising new directions in theory and analysis of translation studies. Part One of this book includes contributions related directly to the theory of translation. Part Two contains studies that focus on the analysis of particular translations where the languages are English, Finnish, Russian, French and Hungarian. The main topics related to the theory of translation center around the models and paradigms of translation studies, translation strategies, typology, the notion of equivalence, explication, issues of terminology, and translator training. The empirical studies that