Ideology and Conference Interpreting

A Case Study of the Summer Davos Forum in China
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-56907-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 461 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies

Gao uses the case of conference interpreting at the Summer Davos Forum in China to systematically reveal the ways in which ideology and linguistic ‘re-engineering’ can lead to discourse reconstruction.

Translation and interpreting can never be wholly neutral practices in ‘multi-voiced’ transnational communication. Gao employs an innovative methodological synthesis to examine in depth a range of elements surrounding interpreters’ ideological positioning. These include analysing the appraisal patterns of the source and target texts, identifying ‘us’-and-‘them’ discourse structures, investigating interpreters’ cognitions, and examining the crossmodal means by which interpreters render paralanguage. Collectively, they bridge the gap between socio-political and ideological concerns on the one hand, and practical questions of discourse reconstruction in cross-language/ cultural events on the other, offering a panoramic perspective.

An invaluable read for scholars in translation and interpreting studies, particularly those with an interest in political discourse or the international relations context.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gao, Fei

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements, Book Introduction

Chapter 1 - Introduction

Chapter 2 – Ideology and Interpreters’ Ideological Positioning

Chapter 3 – Appraisal Theory and Corpus-Based CDA for a Transnational Agenda

Chapter 4 – Data and Methods

Chapter 5 – Global Analysis: A Quantitative Perspective of Appraisal Patterns

Chapter 6 – ‘Us’–‘Them’ Ideological Positioning through Value-Rich Language

Chapter 7 – Discursive (Re-)Positioning through Dialogic Expansion and Contraction

Chapter 8 – Getting the Emphatic Message in ‘Sound’ Across: A Paralinguistic Perspective

Chapter 9 - Conclusion

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fei Gao is Associate Professor at Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications (China) and holds a PhD from the University of Leeds (UK). Her research interests straddle interpreting and translation studies and corpus-based critical discourse studies, in which she has published articles in refereed SSCI/A&HCI journals such as Perspectives, Interpreting, Meta, Critical Discourse Studies, Discourse & Communication, and in Routledge collections.