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Multimodal Affordances in Diplomatic Interpreting: An SF-MDA Approach

Multimodal Affordances in Diplomatic Interpreting: An SF-MDA Approach

Cen, Xinqiao
Irwin, Derek

Paperback

Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

LinguisticsWriting InstructionInternational Relations

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 24, 2026

ISBN10: 1032583347
ISBN13: 9781032583341
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 24 2026
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book offers an in-depth exploration of diplomatic interpreting as a complex form of multimodal interaction, drawing on examples from China-U.S. diplomatic interpreting activities to demonstrate the nuances of meaning transfer across modes and contexts.

The volume introduces the notion of interpreting being inherently multimodal through its employment of a range of semiotic repertoires, including linguistic modes, gesture, audial information, spatial arrangement, and visual imagery. Featuring case studies from China-U.S. diplomatic interpreting scenarios, Cen and Irwin examine the means and reasons by which interpreters mediate the range of multimodal semiotic resources in such situations in order to accommodate different meanings across varied contexts and their strategies for contextualizing and recontextualizing meaning while navigating different diplomatic interests and interpersonal relationships. Taken together, the book outlines a new framework for understanding and analyzing bilateral interpreting through a multimodal lens, with implications for interpreting in international studies on a wider scale.

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