A corpus-based study of stance-taking as seen from critical points in interpreted political discourse.

Interpreted political discourse has remained underexplored in spite of the significant role played by interpreting in the recontextualisation of political discourse across languages and cultures. The present study, based on a corpus of interpreted political discourse from China, explores how the sta...

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Publicado en:Perspectives: Studies in Translatology Vol. 26; no. 2; pp. 246 - 261
Autores principales: Wang, Binhua, Feng, Dezheng
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Apr2018
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          Department of English, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
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        Discourse analysis
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