Interpreting Cantonese utterance-final particles in bilingual courtroom discourse

Leung, Ester S. M.; Gibbons, John

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“…As Hong Kong has a tradition for interpretation especially in court proceedings involving immigrants, there are also reports concerning mistranslation problems resulting from not sufficient command of a foreign language of an interpreter or the foreigner speaking some dialect divergent from the official language making it difficult for the interpreter to understand the source text message properly. Additionally, "As pointed out by Berg-Seligson, Gurung, Hale, Leung and Gibbons and Leung [13][14][15][16][17][18], the differences between languages and cultures, though not insurmountable, pose challenges to interpreters, especially when they experience the time pressures and stress of the courtroom environment" [19]. The quality of interpretation services has increased significantly in Hong Kong.…”

Section: Effective Legal Communication and Human Rights Observancementioning

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Legal and LSP Linguistics and Translation: Asian Languages’ Perspectives

Matulewska

2019

Int J Semiot Law

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This essay opens the Special Issue of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law dedicated to Asian Languages, entitled "Legal and LSP Linguistics and Translation: Asian Languages' Perspectives". It focuses on revealing the principal issues discussed in the volume, by positioning the contributors' works into the general theoretical semiotic perspectives which shape legal languages, legal translation and public discourse over languages spoken in Asia. This volume of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law is composed of nine articles which may be grouped into four categories of problems. The first group in general refers to problems connected with legal communication both from interlingual and intralingual perspectives. Thus it encompasses four papers dealing with legal translation as well as communication in legal and political settings (

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Section: Effective Legal Communication and Human Rights Observancementioning

confidence: 99%

Legal and LSP Linguistics and Translation: Asian Languages’ Perspectives

Matulewska

2019

Int J Semiot Law

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“Hypophora” and “question cascade” in Cantonese political discourse: the stance triangle and the use of rhetorical moves and utterance final particles

Wan

2022

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This paper looks into the specific pragmatic functions of Cantonese utterance final particles (UFPs) employed in a televised political debate, hosted by the Television Broadcasts Limited in 2016. The paper explores the most frequently used UFPs and discusses how they are being manipulated with two prominent questioning strategies, i.e., hypophora and question cascade, to help project negative stance in this highly institutionalized discourse genre. With the aid of the theoretical framework of ‘stance triangle’, I investigate how various stance-taking activities are navigated through the employment of two questioning strategies as well as UFPs to establish dis-alignment among the electoral candidates. The findings show that the most frequently used UFPs are le1 and aa3: these two UFPs are relatively neutral in question design in daily conversation and are used in all types of question such as polar questions, alternative questions, and content questions. The findings demonstrate that these particles serve as a mitigator and softener with the strategic use of hypophora and question cascade. This paper also proposes a revised stance triangle that helps understand how the negative stances are navigated in questioning strategies and realize the stance objects in an explicit manner. Discovering the true stance objects reveals that the question designs are usually oriented to the “remote audiences,”i.e. the voters.

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Interpreting Cantonese utterance-final particles in bilingual courtroom discourse

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Legal and LSP Linguistics and Translation: Asian Languages’ Perspectives

Legal and LSP Linguistics and Translation: Asian Languages’ Perspectives

“Hypophora” and “question cascade” in Cantonese political discourse: the stance triangle and the use of rhetorical moves and utterance final particles

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