## Henning Bergenholtz & Jan Engberg

## Editorial

Hermes is now in its 17 th year, so it may be said to have established its position as an omnibus journal refl  ecting the research interests of its publisher, viz. the Faculty of Language and Business Communication of  the Aarhus  School  of  Business.  Its  role  as  an  omnibus  journal  is refl  ected, among other things, in the variety of languages represented in  the  various  issues  of  the  journal  over  the  past  year.  The  present issue  contains  a  number  of  contributions  in  German,  whereas  other issues have been dominated by contributions in for example English or Danish. The editorial board has no policy to secure a variety of languages  in  every  single  issue,  but  instead  allows  the  content  and  the pre  fer  red  language  of  the  contributors  to  govern  the  languages  in  a particular  issue.  However,  over  the  years,  a  good  balance  has  been achieved. The size of the journal may vary, but the number of pages of an issue averages 250. In the editorial of the very fi  rst issue of Hermes, the editors predicted that the average issue would contain about 175 pages, which corresponds to the number of pages in this issue. So we have had considerably more success in acquiring papers than we had expected.

In order to refl  ect the research interests of the Faculty of Language and Business Communication the journal always contains a thematic section. The section of this issue is on knowledge systems and their use in studying literary translation (see the special introduction below). As the editorial board has just agreed upon the next series of themes, we would like to inform you about what you may expect from Hermes in the coming years:

Hermes 34: Internet lexicography

Hermes 35: Phraseology

Hermes 36: Language and communication in public authorities

Hermes 37: Mediating specialised knowledge

Hermes 38: Discourse, management, and organisation

Hermes, Journal of Linguistics no 33-2004

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We welcome suggestions for further thematic sections. Please contact one of us, if you have a good idea.