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Brush talk as the 'lingua franca' of diplomacy in Japanese-Korean encounters, c. 1600–1868 (2018)
Journal Article
Clements, R. (2019). Brush talk as the 'lingua franca' of diplomacy in Japanese-Korean encounters, c. 1600–1868. Historical Journal, 62(2), 289-309. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x18000249

The study of early modern diplomatic history has in recent decades expanded beyond a bureaucratic, state-centric focus to consider the processes and personal interactions by which international relations were maintained. Scholars have begun to consid... Read More about Brush talk as the 'lingua franca' of diplomacy in Japanese-Korean encounters, c. 1600–1868.

Medieval Cultures and Modern Crises: Agamben’s Troubadours, Angels and Monks (2018)
Journal Article
Sunderland, L. (2018). Medieval Cultures and Modern Crises: Agamben’s Troubadours, Angels and Monks. Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities, 23(5), 77-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725x.2018.1513200

Giorgio Agamben is accused of political passivity, but this article argues that he sees the potential for resistance in modes of being inactive and unproductive, in study, play and profanity, which alone can escape the binary oppositions through whic... Read More about Medieval Cultures and Modern Crises: Agamben’s Troubadours, Angels and Monks.

Emotions, History and Presence in Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Roman de Troie (2018)
Journal Article
Sunderland, L. (2018). Emotions, History and Presence in Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Roman de Troie. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 54(4), 443-464. https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqy041

Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Roman de Troie is notable for its long descriptions of buildings and objects and for its focus on the emotions of characters. Drawing on historiographical work by Eelco Runia and Frank Ankersmit, amongst others, this article... Read More about Emotions, History and Presence in Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Roman de Troie.

Between Invisibility and Over-visibility: Self-perception and User Expectations of Liaison Interpreters in Business Settings (2018)
Journal Article
Zheng, B., & Xiang, X. (2018). Between Invisibility and Over-visibility: Self-perception and User Expectations of Liaison Interpreters in Business Settings. Babel. Revue internationale de la traduction, 64(1), 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1075/babel.00023.zhe

Recent research on liaison interpreting shows that the interpreters’ role in communicative events includes language facilitator and intercultural mediator. Being empowered with more coordinating functions rather than regarded as invisible conduits, h... Read More about Between Invisibility and Over-visibility: Self-perception and User Expectations of Liaison Interpreters in Business Settings.

Chapter 6.1. Linguistics (2018)
Book Chapter
Vandepitte, S., Jooken, L., Maier, R. M., & Zheng, B. (2018). Chapter 6.1. Linguistics. In L. D’hulst, & Y. Gambier (Eds.), A History of Modern Translation Knowledge Sources, concepts, effects (357-366). (New ed.). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.142

The Effect of Explanatory Captions on the Reception of Foreign Audiovisual Products: A Study Drawing on Eyetracking Data and Retrospective Interviews (2018)
Journal Article
Zheng, B., & Xie, M. (2018). The Effect of Explanatory Captions on the Reception of Foreign Audiovisual Products: A Study Drawing on Eyetracking Data and Retrospective Interviews. Translation, cognition & behavior, 1(1), 119-146. https://doi.org/10.1075/tcb.00006.zhe

The present research triangulates questionnaire, retrospective interview and eyetracking data, aiming to investigate how Explanatory Captions (ECs) are received by different viewers with varied educational backgrounds, and whether or not the presence... Read More about The Effect of Explanatory Captions on the Reception of Foreign Audiovisual Products: A Study Drawing on Eyetracking Data and Retrospective Interviews.

Transnational Exopolities: Politics in Post-Soviet Migration (2018)
Journal Article
Byford, A., & Bronnikova, O. (2018). Transnational Exopolities: Politics in Post-Soviet Migration. Revue d'études comparatives Est-Ouest, 49(4), 5-25

The long history of emigration from the Russian empire and the Soviet Union has been consistently political in nature. It was mostly governed by political decisions and events, irrespective of whether those migrating were explicitly engaged in politi... Read More about Transnational Exopolities: Politics in Post-Soviet Migration.

Between Neo-nationalizing Russia and Brexit Britain: The Dilemmas of Russian Migrants’ Political Mobilizations (2018)
Journal Article
Morgunova, O., & Byford, A. (2018). Between Neo-nationalizing Russia and Brexit Britain: The Dilemmas of Russian Migrants’ Political Mobilizations. Revue d'études comparatives Est-Ouest, 49(4), 129-161

The article analyses the evolution, during the 2000s and 2010s, of civic engagement and political mobilization of post-Soviet Russian-speaking migrants living in the UK, and highlights the importance of these migrants’ inherently transnational positi... Read More about Between Neo-nationalizing Russia and Brexit Britain: The Dilemmas of Russian Migrants’ Political Mobilizations.

Lechebnaia pedagogika: The Concept and Practice of Therapy in Russian Defectology, c. 1880–1936 (2017)
Journal Article
Byford, A. (2018). Lechebnaia pedagogika: The Concept and Practice of Therapy in Russian Defectology, c. 1880–1936. Medical History, 62(1), 67-90. https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2017.76

Therapy is not simply a domain or form of medical practice, but also a metaphor for and a performance of medicine, of its functions and status, of its distinctive mode of action upon the world. This article examines medical treatment or therapy (in R... Read More about Lechebnaia pedagogika: The Concept and Practice of Therapy in Russian Defectology, c. 1880–1936.

Gender Difference of Hedging in Interpreting for Chinese Government Press Conferences: A Corpus-based Study (2017)
Journal Article
Pan, F., & Zheng, B. (2017). Gender Difference of Hedging in Interpreting for Chinese Government Press Conferences: A Corpus-based Study. Across Languages and Cultures, 18(2), 171-193. https://doi.org/10.1556/084.2017.18.2.1

This paper aims to examine gender differences in hedging in Chinese–English conference interpreting based on a transcribed parallel corpus. The point of departure was to test Holmes’s (1986, 1988a) claims that women do not necessarily employ more hed... Read More about Gender Difference of Hedging in Interpreting for Chinese Government Press Conferences: A Corpus-based Study.

A Comparative Study of Translation/ Interpreting as a Profession in Russia, China and Spain (2017)
Journal Article
Tyulenev, S., Zheng, B., & Johnson, P. (2017). A Comparative Study of Translation/ Interpreting as a Profession in Russia, China and Spain. Translation and Interpreting Studies: The Journal of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association, 12(2), 332-354. https://doi.org/10.1075/tis.12.2.07tyu

In this article, three different cultural and socio-political systems, those of China, Spain, and Russia, are compared in terms of how translation and interpreting are viewed. The principal aim is to propose a tentative model for conducting a synchro... Read More about A Comparative Study of Translation/ Interpreting as a Profession in Russia, China and Spain.

The Psycholinguistics of Chinese Translation (2017)
Book Chapter
Zheng, B., & Xiang, X. (2018). The Psycholinguistics of Chinese Translation. In C. Shei, & Z. Gao (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Chinese Translation (291-306). (New ed.). Routledge