Research On Public Speaking Stategies In Interpretation

Interpretation, a kind of translation, means the interpreter transferring source language into the target language orally. As a communicative activity, it has been attached great importance now. Public speaking is a kind of communication activity in public places. Speakers use sound language and body language as an adjunct to express their views and ideas and to clarify the affair or express their emotions clear and completely.The Paris School established by the famous French interpretation researcher, Danica Selekovitch holds that interpretation’s nature is communication. It reveals the speaker’s meaning to the audience in oral clearly and fluently. The interpreter acts as a middle man between the speaker and the audience to help the communication between these two successfully. Meanwhile, the famous public speaker Stephen E. Lucas holds that the communication process of public speaking is to transmit the information from the speaker to the listener by media and, during this process, the speaker can receive the feedback from the listener to adjust his delivery. In contrast, Liu Miqing’s and Ingram’s models of interpretation reveal that interpretation is also a communication process but the interpreter plays the role as the media.This thesis, standing on the Paris School of Interpretive Theory made by Danica Seleskovich, Stephen E. Lucas’s public speaking’s communication process, and Liu Miqing’s and Ingram’s models of interpretation, discusses the strategies of public speaking applied for the interpretation. By studying some interpretation cases, the author concludes the listening skills, verbal strategies and nonverbal strategies that can be used to improve interpretation quality.