Chinese–English Interpreting and Intercultural Communication: Concepts And Perspectives (Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies)

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Synopsis
Chinese and English are the world’s largest languages, and the number of interpreter-mediated interactions involving Chinese and English speakers has increased exponentially over the last 30 years. This book presents and describes examples of Chinese–English interpreting across a large number of settings: conference interpreting; diplomatic interpreting; media interpreting; business interpreting; police, legal and court interpreting; and healthcare interpreting. Interpreters working in these fields face not only the challenge of providing optimal inter-lingual transfer, but also need to fully understand the discourse-pragmatic conventions of both Chinese and English speakers. This innovative book provides an overview of established and contemporary frameworks of intercultural communication and applies these to a large sample of Chinese–English interpreted interactions. The authors introduce the Inter-Culturality Framework as a descriptive tool to identify and describe the strategies and footings that interpreters adopt. This book contains findings from detailed data with Chinese-English interpreters as experts not only in inter-lingual exchange, but cross-linguistic and intercultural communication. As such, it is a detailed and authoritative guide for trainees as well as practising Chinese–English interpreters.
Copyright:
2019

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ISBN-13:
9781317209973
Related ISBNs:
9781315618111, 9781138669628, 9781138669628
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Jim Hlavac and Zhichang Xu, The right of Jim Hlavac and Zhichang Xu to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with sections
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Language Arts, Communication
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Bookshare Staff
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