Factors Affecting The Interpreters

As is well known, with the development of the world economy and international cooperation, the work as an interpreter has become more and more important, and interpreting as a specific discipline of academic study has drawn the attention of more and more researchers and experts.This thesis aims to study and summarize the main factors that most often affect the performance of the interpreters at work. In this process, specific examples will be cited and analyzed, which also constitutes the main method of the thesis. And the author has made full use of the Internet to collect relevant materials and documents, most of which are interviews given by renowned and successful interpreters who are still actively practicing in the interpreting field.The purpose of the thesis is to share with readers what the author regards as the main factors that would likely affect the quality of interpreting. In this process, the author reveals that the work of an interpreter does not only mean high social status and a comfortable income, but is also full of challenges and unexpected hindrances that prevent the effective performance of interpreters. More importantly, the author hopes the thesis will be of some help to interpreters who may have never met in their interpreting practice such factors as listed in the thesis. At the same time, the author believes that would-be or inexperienced interpreters will also benefit significantly from the factors analyzed in the thesis.Now come to the structure of the thesis. In the introduction, such points are given briefly as the history of interpreting, the key role of interpreters, characteristics of the oral language, the interpreting process and the involved factors, because these points are combined into a background, which is really relating to the interpreter and the affecting factors to accelerate the reader's better understanding about the affecting factors.Next in the first chapter and the second chapter respectively, the inside factors and the interfering factors that affect the interpreters will be mentioned in detail with many examples. Here the inside factors mean the factors from the interpreters themselves which can be controlled by the interpreters through their improving themselves. The interfering factors refer to the unexpected factors beyond the interpreters when they are interpreting. They must cope with them well in case the interfering factors would barrier their performance. Lastly, it is the conclusion part.