Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Grammatical Differences and Simultaneous Interpreting: An Empirical Approach

Grammatical Differences and Simultaneous Interpreting: An Empirical Approach

Wang, Miao

Hardcover

ChineseGermanWriting Instruction

ISBN10: 1636670059
ISBN13: 9781636670058
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: Sep 29 2023
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.38
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The book investigates the impact of grammatical differences on English-Mandarin Chinese simultaneous interpreting (SI) by drawing upon an empirical study of professional and student interpreters. It focuses on the effects of three English grammatical categories including passives, adverbials and noun phrases and of three Mandarin Chinese grammatical categories including co-verb phrases, noun phrases and topic-prominent clauses on SI between the two languages. For each category, interpretations of instances in which the grammatical structures are the same across the two languages are compared with interpretations of instances in which the grammatical structures differ across the two languages in terms of shortcomings in the accuracy of content such as errors, omissions, substitutions and factors affecting appropriateness of delivery such as grammatical errors, corrections and complete omissions. The results indicate that grammatical differences have a statistically significant impact on the interpreting performance of both professionals and students, although the impact of expertise is also attested through the consistently better performance of professionals than of students.

Also from

Wang, Miao

View All

Also in

Writing Instruction

View All