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Interpreter’s Role in Discourse and Context: A Corpus-based Study from the SFL Perspective

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This study investigates the role and identity of the Chinese government interpreters in practice. Interpreting, as language in use, can be explained as a sociocultural resource as well as a set of linguistic systems, of which each offers an interpreter a choice of ways of expressing ideas and intentions of speakers he or she interprets for.

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Chen, Y., Song, Z. (2020). Interpreter’s Role in Discourse and Context: A Corpus-based Study from the SFL Perspective. In: Yang, B., Li, W. (eds) Corpus-based Approaches to Grammar, Media and Health Discourses. The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4771-3_12

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