On The Preparation For Interpretation From The Perspective Of The Relevance Theory

Preparation is an essential part of a success interpretation and is an important factor that will influence the quality of the interpreting. Relevance Theory put forward by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson holds that translation is an act of ostensive—inferential intralingual or interligual interpretation of the source language. The Relevance Theory includes three basic arguments:ostensive—inferential characteristic of communication, context and the principle of optimal relevance. Interpretation, in some sense, is the inference of the speaker’s intend under a specific context, so as to find the optimal relevance which will be the best interpretation. As Relevance Theory has great potential in explaining intent this is closely related to how interpretation works. In addition, one of the most important principles that interpreter must abide by is to express the accurate meaning of the speakers’intent, thus explaining is necessary.The dissertation firstly combines the three basic arguments of Relevance Theory with preparation of the interpretation which includes the significance of long term preparation, short term preparation and temp preparation. These are greatly reflected by the three basic arguments above as well as intertwined with them. And then the dissertation finds and clarifies the common aspects of the three basic arguments and interpretation preparation. After that, the author gives some advice about how to make a long term preparation, short term preparation and temp preparation which are also the fundamental requirements for an interpreter to build a perfect context, to anticipate and reason the meaning of the source language, so as to realize the optimal relevance.