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A corpus-based study of modal verbs in Chinese–English governmental press conference interpreting

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العنوان: A corpus-based study of modal verbs in Chinese–English governmental press conference interpreting
المؤلفون: Yifan Zhang, Andrew K. F. Cheung
المصدر: Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 13 (2022)
بيانات النشر: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022.
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: LCC:Psychology
مصطلحات موضوعية: corpus-based, modal verbs, modal values, consecutive interpreting, China, Psychology, BF1-990
الوصف: This study investigates the use of modal verbs in Chinese–English government press conference (GPC) interpretation. Modal verbs mark the speaker’s opinion of or attitude toward the event described in a sentence. Interpreters also use modal verbs to indicate the stances of the source language speakers. The use of modal verbs has been examined in such contexts as research papers, textbooks, and second language learners’ output; however, studies that compare differences in modal verbs between source and target languages in the context of interpreting are sparse. The investigation being reported is based on a comparable corpus—an original Chinese GPC and its English-translated version—and a parallel corpus—a translated English GPC and the original English version from the US. The results of the comparable corpus analysis indicate that the frequency of modal verbs in translated English is significantly higher than in original Chinese, in which only 40% of the modal verbs in translated English are consistent with their Chinese counterparts, while others are employed through amplification and value variation. The results of the parallel corpus analysis suggest that the increase of modal verbs in the target texts may help to achieve certain types of pragmatic functions in English.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1664-1078
Relation: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1065077/full; https://doaj.org/toc/1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1065077
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/c6f342715a1446c78c2384d09cbbdfef
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.6f342715a1446c78c2384d09cbbdfef
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:16641078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1065077