Institutional translators' mediation of CPC Work Reports diachronically through personal pronouns: a corpus-based discourse analysis approach.
Drawing on a corpus-based discourse analysis approach, this paper presents a diachronic-cum-contrastive study of institutional translators' mediation of Chinese political discourse through personal pronouns and their collocations with modal verbs, with a view to identifying how interpersonal relatio...
| Published in: | Perspectives: Studies in Translatology Vol. 32; no. 5; pp. 924 - 942 |
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