Table of contents
List of tables
ix
List of figures
xi
Transcription conventions
xiii
Acknowledgements
xv
Introduction
1
Chapter 1.Strategic manoeuvring in political interpreting contexts
9
1.1Research on interpreting in political contexts
9
1.2Topical selection: implications for interpreting
13
1.3Adaptation to audience demand: implications for interpreting
22
1.4Exploitation of presentational devices: implications for interpreting
30
1.5Argumentative equivalence
39
Chapter 2.Corpus and methodology
43
2.1Background: The financial-economic crisis and the Great Recession
44
2.2Data homogeneity and representativeness
48
2.3Technical details of the corpus
51
2.4The American sub-corpus
54
2.5The British sub-corpus
55
2.6The French sub-corpus
56
2.7Analytical methodology
57
2.8Introductory remarks on crisis-related argumentation
63
Chapter 3.Barack Obama
69
3.1Analogy argumentation
69
3.2Argumentation from values
76
3.3Anecdotal arguments
84
3.3.1Shift towards the third person and towards indirect and direct speech
88
3.3.2Shift from logical to chronological linkage
89
3.3.3Shift in verb tense
91
3.3.4Shift towards vividness
91
3.3.5Anticipation of anecdotal arguments
93
3.3.6Anecdotal arguments: a hindrance to reformulation
94
3.3.7Possible strategies to interpret anecdotal arguments
98
3.4Differences between national and international speeches
102
Chapter 4.David Cameron
105
4.1Deficit reduction and the promotion of growth
105
4.2The global race and its counterpart
111
4.3The Big Society
117
4.4Argumentation in EU settings
122
4.5The slippery slope argument
126
4.6The straw man argument
132
4.7Authority argumentation
133
4.8A rhetorical peculiarity
134
Chapter 5.Nicolas Sarkozy
137
5.1Introduction to the French text collection
137
5.2Analogy argumentation
138
5.3A crisis of confidence
141
5.4The moralisation of financial capitalism
145
5.5The restoration of the value of work
152
5.6Other pragmatic arguments
157
5.7The straw man argument
159
5.8Questions used as rhetorical devices
160
5.9A further rhetorical peculiarity
162
5.10A further argumentative peculiarity
165
Chapter 6.François Hollande
167
6.1From Sarkozy to Hollande
167
6.2The perpetuation of the crisis of confidence
168
6.3Deficit reduction
173
6.4Growth
176
6.5The social conference
182
6.6Argumentation in European and international contexts
191
6.7A syntactic peculiarity
194
Chapter 7.Conclusions
197
7.1Argumentative patterns in the ARGO corpus
197
7.2Political argumentation: implications for simultaneous interpreting
200
7.3Further research
202
References
205
Appendix
217
Index
237
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