Ester S.M. Leung
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ester S.M. Leung plays a role.
2020 Chapter 11. Medical interpreting as an emerging profession in Hong Kong Interpreting in Legal and Healthcare Settings: Perspectives on research and training, Ng, Eva N.S. and Ineke H.M. Crezee (eds.), pp. 263–285 | Chapter
Medical Interpreting (MI) as a profession is a recent development and has previously been implemented in Hong Kong (HK) on an ad hoc basis. The roles that medical interpreters play in providing ethnic minorities with equal access to public health services in Hong Kong is informally widely… read more
2011 Interpreting Cantonese utterance-final particles in bilingual courtroom discourse Interpreting Chinese, Interpreting China, Setton, Robin (ed.), pp. 81–105 | Article
2009 Interpreting Cantonese utterance-final particles in bilingual courtroom discourse China and Chinese, Setton, Robin (ed.), pp. 190–215 | Article
This paper examines an unusual feature of spoken Cantonese — the utterance-final particle — to see how it is deployed and rendered by interpreters in courtroom discourse. The data is based on five rape trials heard in the Hong Kong courtrooms. It is a known fact that different participants in the… read more
2008 Interpreting for the minority Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics, Gibbons, John and M. Teresa Turell (eds.), pp. 197–211 | Article
Legal interpreting is more than a service provided to linguistic minorities who do not speak Cantonese (the majority language in Hong Kong), sometimes English interpreting is also a mechanism and establishment to maintain control, by retaining former colonial practices. Despite expectation of… read more
2003 Rights to be Heard and the Rights to be Interpreted Babel 49:4, pp. 289–301 | Article
2003 Review of: "The Critical Link 2: Interpreters in the Community", edited by R. Roberts et al. Babel 49:3, pp. 283–286 | Miscellaneous