Interpreting Strategies For Overcoming The Intercultural Communicative Barriers In Guide-interpreting Through Functionalist Approach

The growth of tourism industry creates the need for guide-interpreting, a service of providing instruction concerning travel to foreign tourists. However, cultural differences make the intercultural communicative barriers inevitable in guide-interpreting. Although scholars have made efforts to study guide-interpreting and intercultural communicative barriers, their researches mainly focus on empirical analysis. Being a specific branch of interpreting, guide-interpreting calls for an efficient translation theory and interpreting strategy to overcome the intercultural communicative barriers.This dissertation aims to analyze the practice of overcoming intercultural communicative barriers in guide-interpreting from a functionalist approach in the hope of finding a workable guiding theory for overcoming intercultural communicative barriers in guide-interpreting and suggesting some feasible interpreting strategies for overcoming those barriers and elaborating the application area of functionalism.Starting from the introduction of Skopostheorie in functionalism, this dissertation illustrates the correlations between the rules in Skopostheorie, namely, the Skopos rule, the coherence rule and the fidelity rule, and the peculiarities of guide-interpreting, i.e. being tourist-oriented, being informative and attractive and being heavily culture-loaded, and establishes the translation brief in guide-interpreting. Then, based on the discussion on the formation and linguistic forms of intercultural communicative barriers and Skopostheorie, this dissertation presents comparative analysis of cases of overcoming intercultural communicative barriers in guide-interpreting and suggests some interpreting strategies for overcoming such barriers as barriers of culture-specific expressions, barriers of imagery confrontations and barriers of discourse patterns, which are the linguistic forms of intercultural communicative barriers.Hence, the author believes that functionalism may play a unique role in overcoming intercultural communicative barriers in guide-interpreting.