Linguistic Adaptation And Contextual Adaptation In Interpretation

Interpretation as a bridge for international exchanges and cooperation, has played a more and more important role nowadays. From international negotiation to traveling abroad, interpretation connects people speaking different languages and accelerates the process of globalization. Under this backdrop, researchers continuously pay more attention on interpretation both at home and abroad. Studies on interpretation has been conducted from the perspective of cultural differences, psychology, cognition, sociology and etc. And now, interpretation research has developed more interdisciplinary.This thesis studies interpretation from the perspective of Jef. Verschueren's Adaptation Theory. As interpretation is a cross-culture communicative activity, the author propose that the interpreter should make continuous choices to dynamically adapt not only to the structural objects of the source language, but also to the non-linguistic factors, such as social, cultural ingredients. Six chapters will be given to elaborate the theory and the viewpoint.Chapter one makes an introduction of the outline of the whole thesis. Chapter two lays the conceptual foundation of the study and makes a review of previous studies on interpreting. Chapter three makes an introduction of Adaptation theory. Chapter four analyzes interpreting with Adaptation theory. Chapter five is a case study. Chapter six concludes the viewpoints of the study.In short, this paper attempts to research how adaptation is functioning in the process of interpretation. And how the interpreter is supposed to adapt to the linguistic and non-linguistic factors to properly convey information and the communicative intentions of the speaker to the hearer.