Nicolau Dols is a full professor of Catalan at the Universitat de les Illes Balears and a member of Institut d’Estudis Catalans, whose Philological Section he currently chairs. His research interests lie mainly in the fields of phonology and grammar. He has also addressed issues in sociolinguistics, language standardisation, translation, and constructed languages. Jordi M. Antolí Martínez is a professor at the Department of Catalan Studies of the University of Alicante and member of the Institut Superior d'Investigació Cooperativa IVITRA. His work deals with the analysis of Catalan Diachronic Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics and Construction Grammar.

• Language recoding and transcoding. Preface and overview - Transcoding as a theoretical framework for translation: advantages and challenges - On subtitling: tension between orality and writing - A robust model of comprehension. Surmounting interspecies barriers - ‘The cockerel, the little lamb, the little Pig and the dragon’: from folktale to children’s story - Transcoding Ramon Llull: an Optimality approach to modern lullian adaptations - From fact to fable: Catalan ‘literaturisation’ of historical events - Recoding literary genres and translating: Girart de Roussillon, a chrysalis work in between genres history and literaturizing - Where do the ideas come from? Empeltar ‘to inoculate’ - Phytonyms and the mechanisms of onomasiological lexical creation - Grammaticalization and discourse: on, an adverbial relative construction used as a discursive marker in Old Catalan - Knowledge and use of Spanish and French paroemias by Catalan-speaking students of the Undergraduate Degree in French-Spanish Translation - The presence of cultural references in phraseological units - Argentinian cultural references in Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch and its translation into German - Code switching on IB3 informative texts