Reliable authority? Focus on the English translations of Cityscape texts

Genres are embedded in professional or social practices, and hence they tend to call into the fore additional meanings as a result of their association with professional or disciplinary cultures. Therefore, in the process of recontextualization of written discourse, whether in the same language, or in another language, it is important to maintain the generic integrity of the source text, so that one can convey not only the textual meaning, but also the more conventionalised generic meaning of the source text.