1. An urgent need for dictionaries in a universe with an intensively growing inter- cultural communication and a subsequent need for translation may have kept research at the level of register analysis with the main focus on the writing of dictionaries.
2. In this book, text type is used in a broad sense to refer to any distinct type of text and the notion includes genre.
3. Viewed within the diverse communicative environments in which texts occur in practice, we are dealing with messages addressing primary readers, i.e. readers directly addressed by the originator, ând messages addressing secondary readers,i.e. readers not addressed directly. Many translations are of the latter kind.