This book researches the solutions devised by translators to cope with the problem of translating dialect. The data available for analysis consist of source language texts containing dialect which already have been translated into Polish in whatever way translators found appropriate. This publication will first examine dialect in functional terms, discuss a textual framework for the study of translation, and proceed to evaluating earlier proposals for the treatment of dialect in translation. Building on the findings of the first chapters, the book develops a new framework for the study of dialect in translation and tests it against a body of data to see if the explanatory power of such theoretical proposals is sufficient to account for the observable facts, state the conditions precedent on selecting particular solutions by individual translators, and predict the strategies which are most likely to be selected in a given case.