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Christian Matthiessen: Yes, it was a very helpful contribution. We used it ourselves as a textbook at Macquarie for our MA programme in translation studies, and we referred to it when we developed the course on text analysis for translators and translator training. In a sense, this is Mona Baker before she very energetically turned to corpus-based research in translation, drawing on the work by John Sinclair and his group at Birmingham University (eg, Baker 1993, 1995, 1996), but it is a classic, and is now in its third edition.

You can see the influence of SFL in her book most clearly in the chapter on the textual metafunction (ie, Chap. 5 Textual Equivalence: Thematic and Information Structures). From my point of view, it is the most successful chapter. It is also the one that is most influenced by SFL, which deals with issues of the recreation of thematic choices in the process of translation (cf., Kim & Matthiessen 2017 …