Contrastive images of journalists and Chinese premiers in interpreter-mediated press conferences: a case study of Chinese 'xiexie'.
Although it is important to research the images of politicians as recreated in interpreted discourse, to date, minimal attention has been paid to interpreter-reshaped contrastive images of journalists and state leaders in a highly institutional central government-initiated context. This paper invest...
| Publicado en: | Perspectives: Studies in Translatology Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 507 - 522 |
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