Chineseenglish Interpreting and Intercultural Communication

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jim Hlavac, Jim (Monash University Hlavac, Jim Xu Hlavac, Hlavac Jim, Marc Zhichang Xu, Zhichang Xu, Zhichang (Monash University Xu
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781138669628
• ISBN: 978-1-138-66962-8
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics; Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Discourse Analysis, English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Chinese, Translation & interpretation, Language teaching and learning, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Translation and interpretation