Or: Should the teaching of subject matter content be a thing of the past?

It is generally agreed that LSP translation requires considerable specialised subject matter knowledge, cf. e.g. Gutt (2000:173): Suppose the translator is dealing with technical material for some specialist audience without being expert himself/herself. In this case, both original and target audience may have similar specialist knowledge – but the translator may not. […] From the relevance-theoretic perspective, it is a must that the translator have a good grasp of both the receptor and the original context. In some situations this may require substantial preparation and research. Besides specialised subject matter knowledge, LSP translation, like other types of translation, obviously also requires general world knowledge, knowledge of language (source and target), of genre and of translation processes. Knowledge within all of these spheres is necessary both in order to understand the meaning of a given LSP source text and to convey that meaning into the target language. Even though it is generally agreed that specialised subject matter knowledge is a