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Mediation through modality shifts in Chinese-English government press conference interpreting
Babel. Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation, 2018This paper investigates the mediation role of interpreters through modality shifts in Chinese-English diplomatic interpreting. Based on the custom-built corpus of interpreted government press conferences, this article conducts a Systemic Functional ...
Li Xin
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E-Governance on the Web: Linguistic and Discursive Strategies
2015The chapter delves into the ongoing debate on e-governance, concentrating on the relationship between language use and other dimensions of social life such as identity and belonging as they are discursively encoded online. It suggests that new media communication may work as a tool of social cohesion and inclusion. By looking at linguistic evidence, it
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Linguistic Challenges of Interoperable Registers in the Context of E-Government Services
Pázmány Law Review, 2023E-administration requires, among others, interoperability between registers kept by authorities. Databases hold data clustered around concepts stemming from the different legal acts governing the procedures of the various authorities. Owing to the conceptual and terminological incoherence pervasive throughout legal acts, the intended interoperability ...
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The American Review of Public Administration
As a critical tool for accountability mechanisms, audits are expected to provide key stakeholders with impartial and unbiased information about government operations. However, meeting this expectation may not be readily achievable since auditors are not entirely free from various bias sources.
Youngsung Kim, Sungho Park
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As a critical tool for accountability mechanisms, audits are expected to provide key stakeholders with impartial and unbiased information about government operations. However, meeting this expectation may not be readily achievable since auditors are not entirely free from various bias sources.
Youngsung Kim, Sungho Park
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Government performance evaluation using a balanced scorecard with a fuzzy linguistic scale
The Service Industries Journal, 2009An efficient performance measurement system is essential for controlling, monitoring and improving service quality in governmental organisations. In this study, a new ‘government performance evaluating (GPE) procedure’ using a balanced scorecard structure integrated with a fuzzy linguistic scale is proposed for measuring and improving public service ...
Jerry Chun-Teh Wu +3 more
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Critical inquiry In Language Studies, 2018
The authors examine how the Mandarin-Cantonese relationship has been ideologically and discursively perceived and constructed in China’s language policy and planning, and Chinese people’s reaction over the years by drawing on theories in critical ...
Feng Liang, Dong-shin Shin
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The authors examine how the Mandarin-Cantonese relationship has been ideologically and discursively perceived and constructed in China’s language policy and planning, and Chinese people’s reaction over the years by drawing on theories in critical ...
Feng Liang, Dong-shin Shin
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Afterword: Reclaiming Freedoms of Speech against Linguistic Governance?
2012UNESCO’s 1950 Freedom and Culture contrasts totalitarian and democratic systems: ‘One is faith in an official truth and in the power of government to impose it. The other is faith in the continuing inventiveness of men’ (Bryson, 1950, p. 144). The 2011 Arab Awakening saw people re-asserting faith in themselves, coming together collectively, and shaking
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Linguistic versus biological factors governing acoustic voice variation
Interspeech 2022, 2022Yoonjeong Lee, Jody Kreiman
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The colonial linguistics of governance in Sudan: the Rejaf Language Conference, 1928
Journal of African Cultural Studies, 2016This paper explores the discursive history of ‘language-making’ in the context of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, focusing on a significant colonial moment of standardisation: The Rejaf Language Conference (RLC) of 1928. Through inspecting the report of the proceedings of the RLC, the paper contends that this institutional event contributed to the ...
Ashraf Abdelhay +2 more
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Linguistic Characteristics and Changes of Local Government Administrative Slogans
The Journal of Korean Studies, 2022Dae-Ah Park, Suk-Jeong Kim
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