Interpreting Impoliteness: Interpreters’ Voices

Impoliteness and mock-impoliteness A descriptive analysis

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Intercultural impoliteness

The paper argues that impoliteness may work differently in intercultural interactions than in L1 communication. Most researchers (cf. Bousfield, 2008; Culpeper, 2009, 2010; Haugh, 2011) analyzing impoliteness within one language seem to agree that no act is inherently impolite, and that such a condition depends on the context or speech situation that affects interpretation. This may not be quit...

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Language and Culture: Forms of Interpreting a Journey into Interpreters' Human, Cultural, and Linguistic Awareness

Mariachiara Russo is an associate professor at the Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators (Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori) in Forlí, Italy, a campus of the University of Bologna. As a graduate of the Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators at the University of Trieste in Italy, Prof. Russo began her profe...

Reflexive Interpreters

The goal of achieving powerful problem solving capabilities leads to the “advice taker” form of program and the associated problem of control. This proposal outlines an approach to this problem based on the construction of problem solvers with advanced self-knowledge and introspection capabilities. 1 The Problem of Control Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead lif...