ABSTRACT
Since the 1990s, translation as a commercial activity has become a global business whose growth outstrips that of world trade as a whole (Boucau 2006). This is a natural consequence of the globalization of trade in general. The rapid expansion of the internet has been a major factor in allowing even smaller companies to market and sell their products internationally. And the demand from consumers for product information, software, user manuals, games, educational materials and so on in their own language has fuelled in its turn the demand for translation.
