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Volume 28, 2020 - Issue 3: Journalistic translation research goes global
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(Re-)voicing Beijing’s discourse through self-referentiality: a corpus-based CDA analysis of government interpreters’ discursive mediation at China’s political press conferences (1998–2017)

Chonglong GuDepartment of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United KingdomCorrespondence[email protected]
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Rebecca TiptonDepartment of Modern Languages and Cultures, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester, Manchester, United KingdomORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6974-8226
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Pages 406-423 | Received 22 Oct 2019, Accepted 09 Jan 2020, Published online: 28 Jan 2020

Figures & data

Figure 1. Screenshot of the Word List in English

Figure 1. Screenshot of the Word List in English

Table 1. Breakdown of the various subcorpora of the CE-PolitDisCorp.

Table 2. Identified self-referential items in both subcorpora.

Figure 2. Screenshot of the interpreter-mediated discourse appearing on China Daily website

Figure 2. Screenshot of the interpreter-mediated discourse appearing on China Daily website

Table 3. Broader WE and broader I in both subcorpora

Table 4. Frequencies of the broader WE across administrations

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