Cheng Zhan
List of John Benjamins publications in which Cheng Zhan is involved.
Articles
2017 Chinese medical interpreters’ visibility through text ownership: An empirical study on interpreted dialogues at a hospital in Guangzhou Interpreting 19:1, pp. 97–117 | Article
The interpreter’s visibility in dialogue interpreting is a topic that has drawn extensive interest from researchers. Based on observation and recordings of 29 interpreted medical consultations at a hospital in Guangzhou, and replicating work on Spanish/English interpreting by Angelelli, this… read more
2012 Mediation through personal pronoun shifts in dialogue interpreting of political meetings Interpreting 14:2, pp. 192–216 | Article
This paper examines the mediation role of government staff interpreters in China. Based on data collected from six political meetings involving senior officials of Guangdong Province, with interpreting performed by staff interpreters in the Protocol Department of the Foreign Affairs Office of the… read more
Strategies for handling ambiguity and untranslatability in Chinese–English interpreting FORUM: Online-First Articles | Article
This study examines the core challenges of untranslatability and ambiguity in Chinese–English interpreting. Rather than pursuing perfect linguistic equivalence, a goal often unattainable under time pressure, we argue that successful interpreting in this context requires a dynamic,… read more