A Corpus-Based Study of Syntactic Shifts in Chinese-English Conference Interpreting

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10.2991/assehr.k.200709.022How to use a DOI?

Keywords

corpus, syntactic shift, Chinese-English conference interpreting

Abstract

Due to linguistic differences between Chinese and English, and the expectation of immediate communication effect, syntactic shifts often occur in C-E conference interpreting. Through a self-built parallel corpus, the article investigates the syntactic shifts in terms of mean sentence length, grammatical categories, rhetorical means, and some special sentence structures. Research results show that the occurrence of syntactic shifts enhances the effect, speed and efficiency of C-E conference interpreting by making the interpreted texts simple, concise, explicit, and idiomatic.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Lei Gao
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/07/09
TI  - A Corpus-Based Study of Syntactic Shifts in Chinese-English Conference Interpreting
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange (ICLACE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 89
EP  - 92
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200709.022
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200709.022
ID  - Gao2020
ER  -