Cultural Barriers In Interpreting-from The Perspective Of Cultural Schema

With the wave of globalization surging forward,cross-cultural communications between China and other countries of the world are becoming more frequent than ever before.Due to different cultural background of the communicators,cross-cultural communicative barriers arise now and then with cultural barriers as the major problems.To clear away various cultural barriers and help the communicators realize their communicative purposes,it is of vital importance for the interpreter to increase their accumulation of cultural background knowledge,enhance their cross-cultural awareness and improve their interpreting skills.Practical measures are also needed to battle cultural barriers.In this respect,cultural schema theory can serve as effective theoretical guidance to the performance of interpreting.Based on schema theory,this thesis analyzes the facilitative functions of cultural schema in interpreting as a cross-cultural communicative activity,categorizes four most typical cultural barriers in interpreting and points out that the causes of cultural barriers lie in the differences or defaults of corresponding cultural schema in the communicators' mind from the perspective of cognitive psychology.Then it introduces the factors of cultural schema and the transformability of cultural schema; two coping strategies with six specific measures are put forward with a number of typical examples to improve and facilitate the interpreter's performance with better preparation of cultural background knowledge.