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Conference Interpretation Of Culturally-loaded Words: From The Cultural Schema Perspective

Posted on:2014-08-09Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y HuangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2255330392463165Subject:Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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Recently, conference interpretation has been increasingly important in theinter-cultural communication, especially the interpretation in press conferences heldin the duration from NPC to CPPCC in China. Culturally-loaded words consisting ofsingle word, proverbs, idioms and poems in Chinese are commonly found throughoutthe speeches, which posts a strong challenge to interpreters. In the light of the concept“cultural schema” originally mentioned in psychology by the scholars, this thesismakes an attempt to take a closer look at the C-E interpretation of culturally-loadedwords. The author collected the video clips of the press conferences of five sessionsof Premier Zhu and one session of Premier Wen and Premier Li, brought forward andcategorized the cultural schemata that have an impact on C-E interpretation ofculturally-loaded words, further discussed how interpreters coped with theculturally-loaded words and explored the reasons behind that. Through systematic andcomprehensive analysis, two major findings were obtained: first, the author dividedthe strategies dealing with culturally-loaded words into four categories, literalinterpretation, explanation, borrowing and free interpretation. Second, a generalprinciple of coping with Chinese culturally-loaded words was put forward accordingto different types of cultural schemata. Different cultural schemata required differentcoping strategies when interpreting. That is to say, when the culturally-loaded wordsare in the coincidental cultural schema, literal interpretation is enough; when theculturally-loaded words are in the paralleling cultural schema, borrowing, explanationand free interpretation are necessary and feasible; when the culturally-loaded wordsare in the vacant cultural schema, explanation or free interpretation is the best strategyto consider.
Keywords/Search Tags:conference interpretation, cultural schema, culturally-loadedwords
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