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

• Main Author: Li, Xin (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Corpora and Intercultural Studies, 1
• Subjects: Applied linguistics.; Literature-Translations.; Applied Linguistics.; Translation Studies.

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 i...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Corpus-based Interpreting Studies
• Chapter 3 Modality in English and Chinese
• Chapter 4 Modality Shifts in the Use of English Modality Markers
• Chapter 5 Modality Shifts in the Translation of Chinese Modality Markers
• Chapter 6 The Reconstruction of Modality in Relation to Its Sociocultural context
• Chapter 7 Conclusion
• References
• Appendices.