Research On Onsite Technical Consecutive Interpretation And Interpreters' Qualifications

Interpreting,as a profession, can be traced back to 1919 Paris Peace Conference. It has been developing with an ever-increasing scale of application and degree of professionalism. But it is still at the level of interpreting training and teaching methods studying. Interpreting theory research came into being much later than translating research and has been universally recognized only recently. The Theory of Sense was established in the 1980s. It was once the guiding theory of interpreting research in the west because of its ever-perfecting framework and unique perspective. Almost all of the content of onsite technical consecutive interpretation is technical information and it is always influenced by the environment, which makes it much more difficult than common interpretation.With the increase of technological exchanges between China and outside world, more rigid requirements on onsite technical consecutive interpreters are placed. However, the study of interpretation in China, especially onsite technical consecutive interpretation, stays at the very beginning stage and limited in the field of teaching practice study. Onsite technical consecutive interpreters in the market can not satisfy the requirements neither in terms of quantity nor of professional quality. As an onsite technical consecutive interpreter, who has four years onsite working experience, and were mainly working for the 6th Asian Winter Game and the 24th Winter Universiade, the author takes the Theory of Sense as the theoretical basis and tries to discuss the features and criteria of onsite technical interpretation, and qualifications of onsite technical interpreters from his own experience. The aim of this thesis is to fulfill the blank of research for onsite technical interpretation from the angle of practical use. Through a detailed qualitative analysis, the author gained the results that Onsite technical consecutive interpreting is a kind of special interpreting. Technical content and extremely bad working environments are the most obvious features; Accuracy and fastness are the most two important Criteria for the Quality Assessment of Technical Consecutive Interpretation; Technology is rigorous. To be a qualified onsite technical interpreter, we should not only possess the qualification of common interpreters but also have the knowledge of technology and some special abilities, such as encyclopedic knowledge, ability and thirst to learn in practice, creativity in onsite technical consecutive interpretation and good professional ethics are the most import qualification for being a qualified onsite technical interpreter.