Functional Approaches to Culture and Translation: Selected Papers by Jose Lambert

This Festschrift collection provides a memorable profile of the scholarly career (to date) of Jose Lambert, and at the same time serves the useful purpose of bringing together in a single volume a representative selection of thirteen papers in English and French that were originally published in different journals and books. The book is a fine salute to one of the most influential figures of contemporary Translation Studies. The papers have been reformatted, given a unified bibliography and "lightly edited", but the author's inimitable remains. The editors contribute an exellent introductory chapter on "Jose Lambert and descriptive research into literature, translation and culture", and at the end of the book there is a complete list of Lambert's own publications up to 2005, a name index and a subject index. [...] Jose Lambert has become more than a catalyst; he has surely become an institution in his own right, and this collection does him credit. -- Andrew Chesterman, Helsinki, in Target Vol. 20:2 (2008)