Scholar and teacher of the Japanese language Refsing (U. of Copenhagen) and researcher in text linguistics and translation theory and practice Lundquist (languages for a specific purpose, Copenhagen Business School) combine their experience and insights to offer students, teachers, and practitioners a practical textbook on problems and strategies for translating Japanese texts. They focus on Japanese and English, highlighting the systematic differences between the two. Texts are created by the interplay between linguistic material, and pragmatic and cognitive mechanisms, they contend, and translation should take that into account. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)