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Book SynopsisThis volume provides a timely reflection of this growing interdisciplinary field of translation, interpreting and political discourse. It includes very recent work carried out by researchers from a range of countries. The chapters illustrate new trends and perspectives in the interdisciplinary research field, and extends previous research. The volume covers both translation and interpreting modes in monolingual, bilingual and multilingual contexts. It features the convergences and synergies between the two modes, and thus provides new insights on these different modes of language communication. Furthermore, instead of situating translation in politics or politics in translation, the volume treats political discourse and translation/interpreting at equal levels, thus allowing more room for the discussion of the interdisciplinary nature of the field.
Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Jun Pan, Sandra L. Halverson and Jeremy Munday Part 1: Translation, Interpreting and Political Discourse: New Issues and Resources 2 The Analysis of Translated Political Discourse Jeremy Munday 3 New Resources for the Study of Political Translation and Interpreting The Case of the Chinese/English Political Interpreting Corpus (CEPIC) Jun Pan Part 2: Language Convergence and Meaning Divergence 4 Linguistic Convergence in the European Parliament A Correspondence Analysis of N-grams Used by Members of Parliament and Interpreters Bart Defrancq and Koen Plevoets 5 Register Shifts in Political Conference Interpreting A Multidimensional Analysis Nannan Liu 6 Interpreting Culture-specific Items in a Chinese Political Speech A Comparison between Professional and Novice Interpreters Shanshan Yang Part 3: Politics, Power, Language and Identity 7 Languaging in Digital Spaces across the Global-South-North in the 21st Century Language and Identity in Political Mediascape Discourse Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta and Aprameya Rao 8 The Pragmatics of Political Discourse An Analytical Framework and a Comparative Study of Policy Speeches in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong Jun Pan 9 National Face and Facework in China’s Foreign Policy A Corpus-Assisted Case Study of Chinese Foreign Affairs Press Conferences Maria Marakhovskaiia and Alan Partington 10 Translating the Socialist World The Dissemination of Chinese Literature in East Germany in the 1950s Babette Bernhardt Index of Names General Index
