Chinese–English Interpreting and Intercultural Communication

<p>Chinese and English are the world’s largest languages and the number of interpreter-mediated interactions involving Chinese and English speakers has increased exponentially over the last 30 years. This book presents and describes examples of Chinese–English interpreting across a large number of settings: conference interpreting; diplomatic interpreting; media interpreting; business interpreting; police legal and court interpreting; and healthcare interpreting. Interpreters working in these fields face not only the challenge of providing optimal inter-lingual transfer but also need to fully understand the discourse-pragmatic conventions of both Chinese and English speakers. </p><p></p><p>This innovative book provides an overview of established and contemporary frameworks of intercultural communication and applies these to a large sample of Chinese–English interpreted interactions. The authors introduce the Inter-Culturality Framework as a descriptive tool to identify and describe the strategies and footings that interpreters adopt. This book contains findings from detailed data with Chinese–English interpreters as experts not only in inter-lingual exchange but cross-linguistic and intercultural communication. As such it is a detailed and authoritative guide for trainees as well as practising Chinese–English interpreters.</p>