List of tables
Table 1.1Omission and/or misinterpretation of intertextual and interdiscursive references in the ST-IT passage
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Table 1.2Types of political communication settings and related types of interpreting
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Table 1.3Impact of communication settings on speech topicality and register
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Table 1.4Example of interpreters’ failures in coping with situational constraints
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Table 1.5Constraints of the broader context: implications for interpreting
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Table 1.6Non-reproduction of alliteration in the IT
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Table 1.7Incomplete reproduction of anaphora in the IT
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Table 1.8Interpreting in the pragmatic dark: Obama’s 2009 Inauguration Speech
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Table 1.9Interpreting in the pragmatic dark: Obama’s 2008 Victory Speech
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Table 1.10Argument “dissolution” in the ST-IT passage
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Table 2.1Technical details of the corpus
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Table 3.1Difficulties in interpreting narrative passages (1)
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Table 3.2Difficulties in interpreting narrative passages (2)
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Table 3.3Students’ failure to grasp Obama’s anecdote
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Table 3.4Discourse genres – adapted from Longacre (1974: 358) and van Leeuwen (2010: 347)
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Table 3.5Strategic reformulation of anecdotal arguments
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Table 3.6Lexical indicators of anecdotal arguments and possible interpreting strategies
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Table 4.1Strategic reformulation of slippery slope arguments (1)
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Table 4.2Strategic reformulation of slippery slope arguments (2)
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Table 5.1Reformulation by elimination of anaphora
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Table 5.2Reformulation by elimination of anaphora and/or repetition
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Table 6.1Strategic interpretation of parenthetical clauses
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