A Study Of Interpreting Skills From The Perspective Of Interpretation Process

Interpretation is a communicative process which faithfully and orally transfers the information from one language to another. Interpretation has a long history, and its origination can trace back to the ancient times. However, the study on interpretation, compared with that on written translation that has already experienced a two-thousand-year development, begins late. In western countries, academic studies on interpretation has a history of only fifty years while in China, it has not had its debut until the last two or three decades of the 20th century.Since China begins to communicate with the outside world more frequently, the demand for interpretation increases dramatically. Interpretation practice greatly develops and interpretation study has attracted more and more attention from scholars. Despite its late start, interpreting studies advance quickly and a lot of related researches have been carried out in this area and relevant theories have been proposed by many scholars.As we know, interpretation is a demanding task, and it is natural that certain barriers and obstacles exit in the whole process. Therefore, some necessary skills must be attained to ensure the quality of interpretation. However, no systematic theories have been established to show interpreters and those would-be interpreters what kind of skills they must possess and how to possess necessary skills effectively.Bearing this in mind, the current thesis starts from the analysis of interpretation process, analyzes the problems and obstacles that may appear in different stages, then focuses on the discussion of related skills needed to cope with those problems and obstacles. Based on Daniel Gile's Effort Model, the author proposed her framework that is the process of interpretation can be divided into three interactive stages, namely comprehension, memorization and production. Accordingly three major categories of interpretation skills are proposed to deal with obstacles emerging in each stage. These skills are analyzed respectively and finally a conclusion is made on the skills necessary in the interpretation process.