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The Reconstruction of Modality in Chinese-English Government Press Conference Interpreting: A Corpus-Based Study

By Xin Li

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2017
ISBN
9811051682, 9789811051685
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2770419 bytes)
Series
Corpora and Intercultural Studies 1
Pages
xii+202\215
Time added
2018-09-28 21:14:57

Description

This book investigates a special genre of interpreting in the Chinese context, namely Government Press Conference (GPC) Interpreting. Drawing on the modality system from Systemic Functional Grammar and a corpus of 21 interpreting events, the project explores the regular patterns of modality shifts in Chinese-English GPC interpreting and seeks explanations in the sociocultural context. As a corpus-based project, the book covers qualitative analysis of the sociocultural context, qualitative analysis of the interpersonal effects of modality shifts, and quantitative analysis of modality shifts. This book will contribute to the understanding of the distinctive features of GPC interpreting in China, shed new light on the rendition of modality between Chinese and English in specific contexts, and also inspire new thoughts on the nature of interpreting in general.

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