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Contrastive linguistic decisions - the need for textual competence;foundation disciplines; the myth of the single register; argumentationacross cultures; argumentation in Arabic rhetoric; the paragraph as aunit of structure; background information in expository texts; at theinterface between structure and texture - themes and rhemes; cataphora;degree of texture explicitness; emotiveless in texts; translatingdirect and indirect speech and the dynamics of news reporting; thepragmatics of politeness; cultures in contact; the discourse of thealienated; the translation of irony - a discourse perspective; theother texts liason interpreting.