This chapter has focused on the role of linguistics in the development of translation studies. It has revisited three stages of linguistic influences on the rapidly growing area of translation studies, namely the influences of early modern linguistics, of discourse analysis, and of multimodality scholarship. With the benefit of the fruits of linguistic development and that of related fields, translation studies as an academic research area has expanded considerably since the middle of the twenty first century to become an interdiscipline, in which linguistics can be expected to continue to play an important part.