Abstract Scholarly interests in metaphor translation are predominantly drawn to ‘translatability’ with a focus on cultural universals/specificities, overlooking the underlying ideology ‘transfer’ from source texts target texts. Benefiting methodological weld of cognitive approach and critical discourse analysis (CDA), this study examines re-encoding by Chinese conference interpreters at Summer Davos Forum China. The demonstrates that deploy different strategies (a) preserve/accentuate...

The key to the construction of high-level specialty groups lies in generation agglomeration effect. It shows three effects: scale, sharing and innovation. analysis 242 samples based on entropy weight TOPSIS method that innovation effect is more prominent than three, but overall level not high, category difference obvious. optimization depends reinforcement holistic concept, improvement mechanisms establishment quality assurance system.

This piece of reflection draws on a pilot programme using Chat-GPT in the teaching political speech translation Chinese-to-English classroom. The conduction this was driven by, among others, growing concern by third-year undergraduates doing Chinese-English as their major; they have aired worries that human translators might be replaced large language models capable translation. students observed and compared (by institutional interpreters) four speeches delivered Chinese government...

While reconstructing political discourses in interpreter-mediated international conferences has attracted research attention, solidarity discourse as a major theme for UN conference interpreting not been studied. This study investigates the reconstruction of produced by Chinese heads state and high-level government officials Chinese-English at UN's General Debates (2008–2021). The corpus-based critical analysis reveals three patterns discursive done interpreters: (1) (re)grouping...

Purpose Pets reflect the identity and moral values of their owners. The purpose this study is to examine how pet owners’ political (liberal–conservative) influences relationship they forge with pets as well purchase behaviors pet-related products services. Design/methodology/approach This conducted two surveys owners different identities measured both intentions medical-related services luxury accessories. Two secondary data sources were used provide additional support. Findings shows that,...