ABSTRACT
The deceptively simple title of this chapter hides a bewildering complexity associated with the innocent-looking noun ‘translation’ – a complexity that must be dwelt upon before the relationship between translation and language awareness can be addressed. Similarly, it is necessary to operate with an understanding of language awareness in a discussion about the relationships that may exist between it (language awareness) and translation, so although the phenomenon of language awareness receives detailed discussion elsewhere in this volume, I shall need to consider and elaborate on the subject with translation in mind.
