Communication-Oriented Analysis Of Interpreting Quality Assessment

Interpreting is an inter-lingual and cross-cultural communication process mediated by the interpreter. Communication-oriented analysis offers a new direction to study the interpreting quality assessment. Since the aim of interpreting is to achieve desired communicative effects between the speaker and the listener, the paper contends that quality of interpreting is assessed by the effectiveness of communication in interpreting. Consequently, the issue of interpreting quality can be formulated as"What makes an effective communication in interpreting?"After an analysis of interpreting from the perspective of communicative process, the author presents three basic criteria and the situationality of user expectations for effective communication in interpreting. In other words, quality of interpreting is assessed by the effectiveness of the communication in terms of these criteria and situationality consideration. Afterwards, conflict between the speaker and listener, and external factors affecting the interpreting communication are also illustrated. Lastly, several strategies are proposed to achieve effective communication in interpreting.