The Role Of Interpreter In Business Negotiation

Since China entered WTO, Chinese companies are more involved in international businesscommunity so it is very important for more and more international companies and theircounterparts to have a good communication and accurate understanding with each other.That’s why interpreters are necessary in business negations.In the process of consecutive interpretation in business negotiation, the author finds thatthe communication effect is crucial for the negotiation result and interpreters playeddifferent roles in business negotiation and this job needs the interpreter’s good preparationin various ways. So the author takes a negotiation project as an example to analyze anddiscuss the roles of interpreter in it and propose the qualification the interpreter in businessnegotiation should have. In daily work, business negotiation interpreters need to have agood understanding of their roles in the interpreting so that it is helpful for them toguarantee the customers interest and improve service quality.