1st Edition

Ideology and Conference Interpreting A Case Study of the Summer Davos Forum in China

By Fei Gao Copyright 2024
192 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

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.