Impoliteness in interpreting: A question of gender?

This paper reports on a study carried out on corpus data drawn from the Ghent Section of the European Parliament Interpreting Corpus. It focuses on how simultaneous interpreters handle face-threatening acts (FTAs) performed by speakers they interpret, and, more in particular, on the question whether...

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Main Authors: Cédric Magnifico, Bart Defrancq
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Western Sydney University 2016-07-01
Series:Translation and Interpreting : the International Journal of Translation and Interpreting Research
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Online Access:http://www.trans-int.org/index.php/transint/article/view/532/253