This book studies interpreting between languages as a discourse process and as about managing communication between two people who do not speak a common language. Roy examines the turn exchanges of a face-to-face interpreted event in order to offer a definition of interpreted events, describe the pr
Interpreting As a Discourse Process
โ Scribed by Cynthia B. Roy
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 150
- Series
- Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
This book studies interpreting between languages as a discourse process and as about managing communication between two people who do not speak a common language. Roy examines the turn exchanges of a face-to-face interpreted event in order to offer a definition of interpreted events, describe the process of taking turns with an interpreter, and account for the role of the interpreter in terms of the performance in interaction.
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