Chonglong Gu
List of John Benjamins publications for which Chonglong Gu plays a role.
2024 From “Within” to “Beyond” in interpreting studies: Conceptualizing interpreting as a socio-political and historical shaping force and a source of inter/trans-disciplinary conviviality Babel 70:6, pp. 783–805 | Article
While there have been recent calls for an “outward turn” in (written) translation studies, interpreting researchers have mostly taken an inward-looking view of interpreting and investigated it as a semi-closed system and an arguably self-interested practice from within, despite the fact that… read more
2023 Review of Caimotto & Raus (2022): Lifestyle Politics in Translation: The Shaping and Re-Shaping of Ideological Discourse Translation and the Formation of Collectivities: Special issue of Translation in Society 2:1 (2023), Dizdar, Dilek and Tomasz Rozmysłowicz (eds.), pp. 119–122 | Review
Gradually moving beyond various linguistically oriented and/or prescriptivist approaches focusing on such concepts as ‘equivalence’ and ‘faithfulness’ and beyond the preoccupations with different internal aspects of translation and interpreting processes and the exhibited (universalist) features… read more
2019 (Re)manufacturing consent in English: A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of government interpreters’ mediation of China’s discourse on PEOPLE at televised political press conferences Target 31:3, pp. 465–499 | Article
Unlike the use of force or coercion, the articulation of ideological discourse constitutes a softer approach in the legitimation and hegemonic rule of dominant political actors, achieved through manufacturing consent (Gramsci 1971). As a major site of ideology, the televised premier’s press… read more
2019 Interpreters caught up in an ideological tug-of-war? A CDA and Bakhtinian analysis of interpreters’ ideological positioning and alignment at government press conferences Translation and Interpreting Studies 14:1, pp. 1–20 | Article
The interpreter-mediated Premier-Meets-the-Press Conferences are an institutional(ized) discursive event in China, permitting the Chinese premier to answer a range of potentially challenging and face-threatening questions from journalists. Arguably, this dynamic and interactive setting can be… read more