Binhua Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3856623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Binhua Wang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Binhua |
| FAMILY NAME | Wang |
| SIGNATURE | WANG B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2404-5214 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A tale of two ‘contexts’: Ideological differences in the translations of UN political speeches by human interpreters and by ChatGPT4o
This study interrogates the ideological disparities between ChatGPT4o and human interpreters in rendering Chinese political speeches delivered at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) from 2008 to 2023. Drawing on van Dijk’s socio-cognitive Context Model, it examines how ‘context’ is operationalised regarding (1) role-relation engagement through deictic pronouns, (2) the modulation of agency via modal verbs, and (3) the treatment of cultural…
Neural network models vs. MT evaluation metrics: A comparison between two approaches to automated assessment of information fidelity in consecutive interpreting
Informational fidelity is the most important aspect in assessing interpreting quality, which can be assessed in two methods: human assessment and automated machine translation evaluation metrics. Despite their prevalent use in interpreter training, human assessment is time-consuming, labour-intensive, and mentally demanding. In terms of automated methods, machine translation metrics assess fidelity through inter-lingual comparisons between the in…
Exploring the multimodal function of synchronous captioning in navigating syntactic asymmetry problems in remote simultaneous interpreting: An eye-tracking study
This study examines how automatic speech recognition (ASR)-generated synchronous captioning functions in interpreters’ processing of syntactic complexity in remote simultaneous interpreting. Focusing on Chinese-to-English interpreting of relative clauses with varying dependency distances, this study investigates how interpreters allocate visual attention, restructure interpreting output, and coordinate cross-modal input during real-time comprehen…
The function of ASR-generated live transcription in simultaneous interpreting: Trainee interpreters’ perceptions from post-task interviews
This study explores whether live transcription generated with the technology of automatic-speech-recognition (ASR) can be used to facilitate simultaneous interpreting. This article reports an analysis of trainee interpreters’ perceptions based on post-task structured interviews after an eye-tracked interpreting task without live transcription in the first half and with live transcription in the second half, which was done by a group of trainee in…
How are prosodic features processed cognitively? A case study of the multimodal cognitive dynamics in simultaneous interpreting with text
This paper examines the effect of prosodic features on trainee interpreters’ cognitive effort, cognitive coordination and interpreting output in simultaneous interpreting with text. Sixteen trainee interpreters were recruited and randomly divided into two conditions to simultaneously interpret 27 sentences from English (L2) to Chinese (L1), with controlled prosodic features. Their interpreting output and eye-movements were recorded with the Eyeli…
Examining cognitive processing in simultaneous interpreting with text: What happens when speaker deviates from text
In simultaneous interpreting with text (SIMTXT), speaker's deviations from their prepared script often bring challenges to interpreters' cognitive processing. However, empirical research on this input variable and how interpreters cope with it are limited. It is also unclear whether more extensive script pre-reading would mitigate the impact of such deviations. This study explores two essential factors concerning the working conditions of SIMTXT:…
Conference interpreting as a ‘variational node’ in intercultural communication: A case study of Belt-and-Road discourse at/beyond the Summer Davos Forum
Cognitive processing in simultaneous interpreting with synchronous captioning: An eye-tracking study of Chinese head-final noun phrases with varied dependency distances
The creation of new academic knowledge spaces through the repatriated self-translation of foreign-language texts: The case of migrant historian Ray Huang
This article examines the repatriated self-translation of a historical monograph, The Fifteenth Year of Wan-li , by the migrant Chinese-American historian Ray Huang from his English manuscript 1587, a Year of No Significance . Through an archival analysis of the process of self-translation and publication, it is shown that the monograph’s innovative content, style, and perspectives on history studies, as well as its re-contextualisation within th…
Exploring automatic methods for the construction of multimodal interpreting corpora. How to transcribe linguistic information and identify paralinguistic properties
In corpus-based interpreting studies, typical challenges exist in the time-consuming and labour-intensive nature of transcribing spoken data and in identifying prosodic properties. This paper addresses these challenges by exploring methods for the automatic compilation of multimodal interpreting corpora, with a focus on English/Chinese Consecutive Interpreting. The results show that: 1) automatic transcription can achieve an accuracy rate of 95.3…
Introduction: Special section on interpreting as a social practice
Evolution of interpreting as a social practice in China during the past four decades. An analysis of Chinese discourse on interpreting through the lens of social practice theory
This article examines how interpreting has evolved as a social practice in China and how it has been shaped by the changing social environment during the past four decades. Viewing interpreting as a social practice, the study employs an adapted three-element model from the social practice theory as the analytic framework. Through a qualitative thematic and content analysis of about 50 relevant articles representing the three sets of elements, whi…
On the Pivotal Role of Cultural Translation in the Exchanges and Mutual Learning Between Civilizations
The article begins with a review of the four significant crowning points in the exchanges and mutual learning between Chinese and foreign civilizations, which were represented by extensive translation activities spanning over two thousand years in China. It reveals that the essence of exchanges and mutual learning between civilizations lies in maintaining cultural diversity, seeking harmony in diversity, promoting cross-cultural exchanges, and pr…
Cognitive processing of the extra visual layer of live captioning in simultaneous interpreting. Triangulation of eye-tracked process and performance data
While real-time automatic captioning has become available on various online meeting platforms, it poses additional cognitive challenges for interpreters because it adds an extra layer for information processing in interpreting. Against this background, this empirical study investigates the cognitive processing of live captioning in interpreting on Zoom Meetings. 13 interpreting trainees in a postgraduate professional training programme were recru…
Convergence and divergence in recent Chinese translation and interpreting studies
Exploring information processing as a new research orientation beyond cognitive operations and their management in interpreting studies: Taking stock and looking forward
This article is a conceptual discussion reflecting on research trends in interpreting studies. It begins with an overview of the long-term focus on cognitive operations and their management in interpreting studies. By revisiting the multiple dimensions and distinctive features of interpreting, it reveals the necessity to go beyond the cognitive approach. Through a stock-taking of relevant literature, it identifies the pivotal role of information …
A comparative analysis of Covid-19 vaccination certificates in 12 countries/regions around the world: Rationalising health policies for international travel and domestic social activities during the p…
As the unprecedented pandemic of COVID-19 became a major barrier during the past two years, many countries were using the "COVID pass" or COVID-19 vaccination certificates in attempts to facilitate effective international travel and domestic social activities. The difficulty remained in how the "COVID pass" from different countries and regions could be mutually recognised. This study surveys the current practice of COVID-19 vaccination certificat…
The impact of translation activities in history and now
Identifying fluency parameters for a machine-learning-based automated interpreting assessment system
Fluency is an important yet difficult-to-measure criterion in interpreting assessment. This empirical study of English-Chinese consecutive interpreting aims to identify fluency parameters for a machine-learning-based automated assessment system. The main findings include: (a) empirical evidence supports the choice of the median values as the cut-offs for unfilled pauses and articulation rate; (b) it informs the selection of outliers as particular…
A multi-dimensional analysis of the representation of conference interpreters in the Chinese media
Though interpreters’ professionalism has been discussed in interpreting studies, there have been few studies on how the general public see the image of interpreters. The present study is a multi-dimensional analysis of the image of conference interpreters as represented by the media, which is based on a corpus of 60 news reports about interpreting and interpreters in the Chinese media in the past 10 years. It explores the research question: How a…
Interpreter-mediated discourse as a vital source of meaning potential in intercultural communication: The case of the interpreted premier-meets-the-press conferences in China
Looking beyond a micro lexicogrammatical perspective, this article takes a broader discursive and sociopolitical view of meaning potential, arguing that interpreting in various political and institutional contexts creates new meaning potentials, with interpreters serving as agents and intercultural connecting points between discourses. This often engenders additional meaning potentials for further mediation in our increasingly (re)mediat(is)ed wo…
A corpus-based study of stance-taking as seen from critical points in interpreted political discourse
Interpreted political discourse has remained underexplored in spite of the significant role played by interpreting in the recontextualisation of political discourse across languages and cultures. The present study, based on a corpus of interpreted political discourse from China, explores how the stance of the Chinese government is interpreted from Chinese to English. The parallel bilingual corpus comprises 15 transcribed press conferences of two …
An evidence-based exploration into the effect of language-pair specificity in English-Chinese simultaneous interpreting
Whether and how language-pair specificity affects the process and product of interpreting is a recurring implicit topic of debate in interpreting studies. Previous discussions have touched upon this issue in Japanese/English and German/English interpreting, with little attention to its role in Chinese/English interpreting. This study focuses on the effect of structural asymmetry between English and Chinese on English–Chinese simultaneous interpre…
An empirical study of pauses in Chinese-English simultaneous interpreting
This empirical study explores the characteristics of and motivations for pauses in Chinese-English (C-E) simultaneous interpreting (SI). The data were collected from a simultaneous interpreting task in which five expert interpreters and five trainee interpreters interpreted an authentic speech from Chinese into English. A bilingual corpus was built comprising transcripts of the speech and the interpretations and pauses were codified for analysis.…
A Descriptive Study of Norms in Interpreting: Based on the Chinese-English Consecutive Interpreting Corpus of Chinese Premier Press Conferences
Interpreting performance is shaped by three major forces: a) the interpreter’s interpreting competence, b) cognitive conditions on-site and c) norms of interpreting. This research is a descriptive study of norms in the Chinese-English interpreting of Chinese Premier Press Conferences, which reveals the actual norms of consecutive interpreting especially with regard to source text and target text relations. It employs the research paradigm of desc…
A corpus-based study of stance-taking as seen from critical points in interpreted political discourse
Interpreted political discourse has remained underexplored in spite of the significant role played by interpreting in the recontextualisation of political discourse across languages and cultures. The present study, based on a corpus of interpreted political discourse from China, explores how the stance of the Chinese government is interpreted from Chinese to English. The parallel bilingual corpus comprises 15 transcribed press conferences of two …
Interpreter training and research in mainland China: Recent developments
Against a background of favorable socio-economic conditions and the development of Translation Studies into an autonomous discipline, translation and interpreting programs are mushrooming in mainland China. This article reports on the development of interpreter training and research here in recent years through an overview of different types of training programs, curriculum designs, training models or paradigms, new textbooks and interpreter accr…
An empirical study of pauses in Chinese-English simultaneous interpreting
This empirical study explores the characteristics of and motivations for pauses in Chinese-English (C-E) simultaneous interpreting (SI). The data were collected from a simultaneous interpreting task in which five expert interpreters and five trainee interpreters interpreted an authentic speech from Chinese into English. A bilingual corpus was built comprising transcripts of the speech and the interpretations and pauses were codified for analysis.…
Cognitive processing in simultaneous interpreting with synchronous captioning: An eye-tracking study of Chinese head-final noun phrases with varied dependency distances
Exploring information processing as a new research orientation beyond cognitive operations and their management in interpreting studies: Taking stock and looking forward
This article is a conceptual discussion reflecting on research trends in interpreting studies. It begins with an overview of the long-term focus on cognitive operations and their management in interpreting studies. By revisiting the multiple dimensions and distinctive features of interpreting, it reveals the necessity to go beyond the cognitive approach. Through a stock-taking of relevant literature, it identifies the pivotal role of information …
Interpreter-mediated discourse as a vital source of meaning potential in intercultural communication: The case of the interpreted premier-meets-the-press conferences in China
Looking beyond a micro lexicogrammatical perspective, this article takes a broader discursive and sociopolitical view of meaning potential, arguing that interpreting in various political and institutional contexts creates new meaning potentials, with interpreters serving as agents and intercultural connecting points between discourses. This often engenders additional meaning potentials for further mediation in our increasingly (re)mediat(is)ed wo…
A Descriptive Study of Norms in Interpreting: Based on the Chinese-English Consecutive Interpreting Corpus of Chinese Premier Press Conferences
Interpreting performance is shaped by three major forces: a) the interpreter’s interpreting competence, b) cognitive conditions on-site and c) norms of interpreting. This research is a descriptive study of norms in the Chinese-English interpreting of Chinese Premier Press Conferences, which reveals the actual norms of consecutive interpreting especially with regard to source text and target text relations. It employs the research paradigm of desc…
Interpreter training and research in mainland China: Recent developments
Against a background of favorable socio-economic conditions and the development of Translation Studies into an autonomous discipline, translation and interpreting programs are mushrooming in mainland China. This article reports on the development of interpreter training and research here in recent years through an overview of different types of training programs, curriculum designs, training models or paradigms, new textbooks and interpreter accr…
A Descriptive Study of Norms in Interpreting: Based on the Chinese-English Consecutive Interpreting Corpus of Chinese Premier Press Conferences
Interpreting performance is shaped by three major forces: a) the interpreter’s interpreting competence, b) cognitive conditions on-site and c) norms of interpreting. This research is a descriptive study of norms in the Chinese-English interpreting of Chinese Premier Press Conferences, which reveals the actual norms of consecutive interpreting especially with regard to source text and target text relations. It employs the research paradigm of desc…
An empirical study of pauses in Chinese-English simultaneous interpreting
This empirical study explores the characteristics of and motivations for pauses in Chinese-English (C-E) simultaneous interpreting (SI). The data were collected from a simultaneous interpreting task in which five expert interpreters and five trainee interpreters interpreted an authentic speech from Chinese into English. A bilingual corpus was built comprising transcripts of the speech and the interpretations and pauses were codified for analysis.…
An evidence-based exploration into the effect of language-pair specificity in English-Chinese simultaneous interpreting
Whether and how language-pair specificity affects the process and product of interpreting is a recurring implicit topic of debate in interpreting studies. Previous discussions have touched upon this issue in Japanese/English and German/English interpreting, with little attention to its role in Chinese/English interpreting. This study focuses on the effect of structural asymmetry between English and Chinese on English–Chinese simultaneous interpre…
A corpus-based study of stance-taking as seen from critical points in interpreted political discourse
Interpreted political discourse has remained underexplored in spite of the significant role played by interpreting in the recontextualisation of political discourse across languages and cultures. The present study, based on a corpus of interpreted political discourse from China, explores how the stance of the Chinese government is interpreted from Chinese to English. The parallel bilingual corpus comprises 15 transcribed press conferences of two …
A multi-dimensional analysis of the representation of conference interpreters in the Chinese media
Though interpreters’ professionalism has been discussed in interpreting studies, there have been few studies on how the general public see the image of interpreters. The present study is a multi-dimensional analysis of the image of conference interpreters as represented by the media, which is based on a corpus of 60 news reports about interpreting and interpreters in the Chinese media in the past 10 years. It explores the research question: How a…
Interpreter-mediated discourse as a vital source of meaning potential in intercultural communication: The case of the interpreted premier-meets-the-press conferences in China
Looking beyond a micro lexicogrammatical perspective, this article takes a broader discursive and sociopolitical view of meaning potential, arguing that interpreting in various political and institutional contexts creates new meaning potentials, with interpreters serving as agents and intercultural connecting points between discourses. This often engenders additional meaning potentials for further mediation in our increasingly (re)mediat(is)ed wo…
A comparative analysis of Covid-19 vaccination certificates in 12 countries/regions around the world: Rationalising health policies for international travel and domestic social activities during the p…
As the unprecedented pandemic of COVID-19 became a major barrier during the past two years, many countries were using the "COVID pass" or COVID-19 vaccination certificates in attempts to facilitate effective international travel and domestic social activities. The difficulty remained in how the "COVID pass" from different countries and regions could be mutually recognised. This study surveys the current practice of COVID-19 vaccination certificat…
The impact of translation activities in history and now
Identifying fluency parameters for a machine-learning-based automated interpreting assessment system
Fluency is an important yet difficult-to-measure criterion in interpreting assessment. This empirical study of English-Chinese consecutive interpreting aims to identify fluency parameters for a machine-learning-based automated assessment system. The main findings include: (a) empirical evidence supports the choice of the median values as the cut-offs for unfilled pauses and articulation rate; (b) it informs the selection of outliers as particular…
Introduction: Special section on interpreting as a social practice
Evolution of interpreting as a social practice in China during the past four decades. An analysis of Chinese discourse on interpreting through the lens of social practice theory
This article examines how interpreting has evolved as a social practice in China and how it has been shaped by the changing social environment during the past four decades. Viewing interpreting as a social practice, the study employs an adapted three-element model from the social practice theory as the analytic framework. Through a qualitative thematic and content analysis of about 50 relevant articles representing the three sets of elements, whi…
On the Pivotal Role of Cultural Translation in the Exchanges and Mutual Learning Between Civilizations
The article begins with a review of the four significant crowning points in the exchanges and mutual learning between Chinese and foreign civilizations, which were represented by extensive translation activities spanning over two thousand years in China. It reveals that the essence of exchanges and mutual learning between civilizations lies in maintaining cultural diversity, seeking harmony in diversity, promoting cross-cultural exchanges, and pr…
Cognitive processing of the extra visual layer of live captioning in simultaneous interpreting. Triangulation of eye-tracked process and performance data
While real-time automatic captioning has become available on various online meeting platforms, it poses additional cognitive challenges for interpreters because it adds an extra layer for information processing in interpreting. Against this background, this empirical study investigates the cognitive processing of live captioning in interpreting on Zoom Meetings. 13 interpreting trainees in a postgraduate professional training programme were recru…
Convergence and divergence in recent Chinese translation and interpreting studies
Exploring information processing as a new research orientation beyond cognitive operations and their management in interpreting studies: Taking stock and looking forward
This article is a conceptual discussion reflecting on research trends in interpreting studies. It begins with an overview of the long-term focus on cognitive operations and their management in interpreting studies. By revisiting the multiple dimensions and distinctive features of interpreting, it reveals the necessity to go beyond the cognitive approach. Through a stock-taking of relevant literature, it identifies the pivotal role of information …
The creation of new academic knowledge spaces through the repatriated self-translation of foreign-language texts: The case of migrant historian Ray Huang
This article examines the repatriated self-translation of a historical monograph, The Fifteenth Year of Wan-li , by the migrant Chinese-American historian Ray Huang from his English manuscript 1587, a Year of No Significance . Through an archival analysis of the process of self-translation and publication, it is shown that the monograph’s innovative content, style, and perspectives on history studies, as well as its re-contextualisation within th…
Exploring automatic methods for the construction of multimodal interpreting corpora. How to transcribe linguistic information and identify paralinguistic properties
In corpus-based interpreting studies, typical challenges exist in the time-consuming and labour-intensive nature of transcribing spoken data and in identifying prosodic properties. This paper addresses these challenges by exploring methods for the automatic compilation of multimodal interpreting corpora, with a focus on English/Chinese Consecutive Interpreting. The results show that: 1) automatic transcription can achieve an accuracy rate of 95.3…
The function of ASR-generated live transcription in simultaneous interpreting: Trainee interpreters’ perceptions from post-task interviews
This study explores whether live transcription generated with the technology of automatic-speech-recognition (ASR) can be used to facilitate simultaneous interpreting. This article reports an analysis of trainee interpreters’ perceptions based on post-task structured interviews after an eye-tracked interpreting task without live transcription in the first half and with live transcription in the second half, which was done by a group of trainee in…
How are prosodic features processed cognitively? A case study of the multimodal cognitive dynamics in simultaneous interpreting with text
This paper examines the effect of prosodic features on trainee interpreters’ cognitive effort, cognitive coordination and interpreting output in simultaneous interpreting with text. Sixteen trainee interpreters were recruited and randomly divided into two conditions to simultaneously interpret 27 sentences from English (L2) to Chinese (L1), with controlled prosodic features. Their interpreting output and eye-movements were recorded with the Eyeli…
Examining cognitive processing in simultaneous interpreting with text: What happens when speaker deviates from text
In simultaneous interpreting with text (SIMTXT), speaker's deviations from their prepared script often bring challenges to interpreters' cognitive processing. However, empirical research on this input variable and how interpreters cope with it are limited. It is also unclear whether more extensive script pre-reading would mitigate the impact of such deviations. This study explores two essential factors concerning the working conditions of SIMTXT:…
Conference interpreting as a ‘variational node’ in intercultural communication: A case study of Belt-and-Road discourse at/beyond the Summer Davos Forum
Cognitive processing in simultaneous interpreting with synchronous captioning: An eye-tracking study of Chinese head-final noun phrases with varied dependency distances
A tale of two ‘contexts’: Ideological differences in the translations of UN political speeches by human interpreters and by ChatGPT4o
This study interrogates the ideological disparities between ChatGPT4o and human interpreters in rendering Chinese political speeches delivered at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) from 2008 to 2023. Drawing on van Dijk’s socio-cognitive Context Model, it examines how ‘context’ is operationalised regarding (1) role-relation engagement through deictic pronouns, (2) the modulation of agency via modal verbs, and (3) the treatment of cultural…
Neural network models vs. MT evaluation metrics: A comparison between two approaches to automated assessment of information fidelity in consecutive interpreting
Informational fidelity is the most important aspect in assessing interpreting quality, which can be assessed in two methods: human assessment and automated machine translation evaluation metrics. Despite their prevalent use in interpreter training, human assessment is time-consuming, labour-intensive, and mentally demanding. In terms of automated methods, machine translation metrics assess fidelity through inter-lingual comparisons between the in…
Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare (22 works) · Translation Studies and Practices (18 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Linguistics (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Interpreter (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Cognition (6 works)