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Communication Strategies And Communicative Competence In Over-the-Phone Interpreting-an Approach From Multi-Language Hotline Service

Posted on:2011-07-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330332459331Subject:English Language and Literature
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The paper aims to give its readers a glimpse of how phone interpreters process information during over-the phone interpreting. As over-the-phone interpreting has its own unique characteristics compared with other on-site interpretation, such as non-visual aids, the techniques and resources an interpreter could adopt are limited, and he or she should be tactful enough to detect any minute changes in tone and voice in order to make the whole interpreting process free flow.The author believes that an interpreter's communicative competence holds the key to a more effective communication. In order to achieve effective competence, one should pay attention to the choices of communication strategies he or she chooses.As over-the-phone interpreting is still new to readers in China, the paper first introduces this relatively new interpreting business by presenting the reader the current trend in this particular field and its over-all development around the globe.In the next chapter, the author elaborates on some of the most popular communication strategies that the author believes could exert a great deal of influence over the operation of over-the-phone interpreting, especially those achievement strategies which are most frequently employed by phone interpreters. The author exemplifies these strategies used during phone interpreting by inciting many real-to-life interpreting cases he collected from his interview with a former phone interpreter.In the end, the author concludes the paper by emphasizing on the importance of cross cultural awareness and suggests ways to make a phone interpreter fully aware of its choice-making.
Keywords/Search Tags:Over-the-phone interpreting, achievement strategy, strategic competence
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