Rongbo Fu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Rongbo Fu is involved.
Articles
2020 Modeling the relationship between utterance fluency and raters’ perceived fluency of consecutive interpreting Interpreting 22:2, pp. 211–237 | Article
Fluency is an important, yet insufficiently understood, construct in interpreting studies. This article reports on an empirical study which explored the relationship between utterance fluency measures and raters’ perceived fluency ratings of English/Chinese consecutive interpreting. It also… read more
2019 Negotiating interpersonal relations in Chinese-English diplomatic interpreting: Explicitation of modality as a case in point Interpreting 21:1, pp. 12–35 | Article
This paper investigates the negotiation of interpersonal relations by interpreters in Chinese government press conferences – a major instrument for the promotion of public diplomacy in China. Drawing on the theory of linguistic modality in systemic functional grammar (SFG) and the concept of… read more