Jim Hlavac, Zhichang Xu

Chinese-English Interpreting and Intercultural Communication

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a contemporary conceptualisation of intercultural communication with an application to one of the most common and yet overlooked types of interactions between Chinese- and English-speakers: communication mediated through an interpreter.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9781032174716
• ISBN-10: 1032174714
• Artikelnr.: 62574165

Autorenporträt

Jim Hlavac is a senior lecturer in Translation and Interpreting Studies, Monash University, and a certified and practising interpreter and translator. He has authored or edited four books and has published widely in the fields of translation and interpreting studies, multilingualism, contact linguistics, intercultural communication, pragmatics and language maintenance/shift. Zhichang Xu is a senior lecturer in the Linguistics and English Language programme of the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University and an associate editor for English Today. His research areas include world Englishes, applied linguistics, cultural linguistics, intercultural communication, language education, and self-translation studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Concepts: Perspectives and Frameworks for Intercultural
Communication 2. Mediated Intercultural Communication involving Chinese
Speakers and English Speakers 3. The Interpreted Interaction 4.
Chinese-English Interpreter-mediated Interactions 5. Findings and
Implications for Intercultural Communication and for Chinese-English
Interpreting