Since the publication of Hatim & Mason’s seminal work (1990, 1997), discourse analysis in translation studies has often drawn on Hallidayan systemic functional linguistics (SFL), and for analysis of political texts in relation to power and ideology it has often turned to theories of critical discourse analysis (e.g., Fairclough 1989/2001; 1992; 2003). While many efforts have been made to apply these theoretical models to the analysis of written translation, these have been limited to a relatively restricted number of languages. Also, because they have sometimes underplayed the role of discourse in enacting social identities, discourse analytic approaches have been somewhat marginalised by new directions in translation studies inspired by cognitive and sociological studies.