Author: kyunghye.kim

The Reconstruction of Modality in Chinese-English Government Press Conference Interpreting: A Corpus-Based Study Author: Li, Xin This book investigates a special genre of interpreting in the Chinese context, namely Government Press Conference (GPC) Interpreting. Drawing on the modality system from Systemic Functional Grammar and a corpus of 21 interpreting events, the project explores the regular patterns of modality shifts in Chinese-English GPC […]

The historical development of jiao 教 in Chinese and its impact on the concept of ‘religion’ in English scholarship Translation and Interpreting Studies Vol. 13:2 (2018), pp. 317–336 I-Hsin Chen | The Chinese University of Hong Kong This article contends that the traditional Chinese concept of jiao (teaching) has, through translation, greatly influenced the conceptual development of ‘religion’ in English-language scholarship. The article first demonstrates how the historical development of jiao in […]

Consequences of the conflation of xiao and filial piety in English Translation and Interpreting Studies Vol. 13:2 (2018), pp. 293–316 James St. André | The Chinese University of Hong Kong This article examines the development over time of the English expression “filial piety” in order to document how, at least partly in response to pressure from an equivalence that is established with the Chinese term xiao (孝) in the seventeenth […]

Translation Quality Assessment: From Principles to Practice Editors: Moorkens, J., Castilho, S., Gaspari, F., Doherty, S. (Eds.) This is the first volume that brings together research and practice from academic and industry settings and a combination of human and machine translation evaluation. Its comprehensive collection of papers by leading experts in human and machine translation quality and evaluation who situate current developments and chart future […]