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LANGUAGE ENGINEERING AND TRANSLATION CONSEQUENCES OF AUTOMATION; LANGUAGE ENGINEERING AND TRANSLATION CONSEQUENCES OF AUTOMATION; Editorial page; Editorial page; Title page; Title page; Copyright page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; Table of contents; Preface. Translation in an Industrial Setting; Preface. Translation in an Industrial Setting; Chapter One. The Language Industry and its Raw Material; Chapter One. The Language Industry and its Raw Material; Chapter Two. Communication Theory for Translation. At a time when information technology has become a regular tool of specialised translators in all aspects of their work, it is useful to place the activity of technical translation into its appropriate environment and to describe it from the point of view of its role in the broader context of communication in which it occurs. The advent of automated alternatives to human translation has fundamentally affected the profession, its products and the relationship between translators and their clients. This book presents and discusses the process of translation against this background. The context in.