Ideology and Conference Interpreting - A Case Study of the Summer Davos Forum in China

Gao uses the case of conference interpreting at the Summer Davos Forum in China to systematically reveal the ways in which ideology and linguistic 're-engineering' can lead to discourse reconstruction.

List of contents

Acknowledgements, Book Introduction
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Ideology and Interpreters' Ideological Positioning
Chapter 3 - Appraisal Theory and Corpus-Based CDA for a Transnational Agenda
Chapter 4 - Data and Methods
Chapter 5 - Global Analysis: A Quantitative Perspective of Appraisal Patterns
Chapter 6 - 'Us'-'Them' Ideological Positioning through Value-Rich Language
Chapter 7 - Discursive (Re-)Positioning through Dialogic Expansion and Contraction
Chapter 8 - Getting the Emphatic Message in 'Sound' Across: A Paralinguistic Perspective
Chapter 9 - Conclusion
Index

About the author

Fei Gao is Associate Professor at Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications (China) and holds a PhD from the University of Leeds (UK). Her research interests straddle interpreting and translation studies and corpus-based critical discourse studies, in which she has published articles in refereed SSCI/A&HCI journals such as Perspectives, Interpreting, Meta, Critical Discourse Studies, Discourse & Communication, and in Routledge collections.

Product details

• Authors: Fei Gao, Fei (University of Posts and Telecommunicatio Gao
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032569086
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3256908-6
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, Translation & interpretation, Translation and interpretation