The Impact Of Intercultural Elements On The Quality Of Interpreting And The Coping Strategies

Interpreting is an extremely complicated activity rather than an activity of wordto word corresponding translation. The essence of interpreting is to correctly deliverthe concept and intention of the source language in target language. During theprocess of interpreting, the impact of intercultural elements can not be ignored. It iswell known that certain culture can not be understood in a short time, so some copingstrategies of intercultural communication will be able to solve some problems causedby intercultural elements during the interpreting. This paper tries to analyze theimpact of intercultural elements on the quality of interpreting and put forward somecoping strategies by analyzing certain cases.During the process of learning interpreting, most of the problems the interpretinglearners came across lie in the lack of vocabulary and the listening comprehension.Those problems could be overcome through a certain period of training. However,after the interpreting learners overcome the difficulties, it is an interestingphenomenon that even for the interpreters who master both the source language andthe target language very well, it is still a great possibility for them to fail to accuratelydeliver the concept and the intention of the source language in target language. Thereare even some very classic jokes on this point. This phenomenon is so interesting thatit is worth studying the reason of its existence and trying to find out the copingstrategies to solve the problem. In this way, it will not only help interpreting learnersovercome those difficulties, but also make them realize the complex and difficulty ofinterpreting, so that to improve interpreters’ capacity and the accuracy of theinterpreting by way of conscious cultural accumulation and interculturalcommunication.This paper includes three parts to discuss the impact of intercultural elements onthe quality of interpreting and the coping strategies. Chapter one mainly introducessome related concepts of interpreting and intercultural communication, aiming atemphasizing the important role of intercultural elements in the activity of interpreting.It views the relationship between interpreting and intercultural communication from amacroscopic perspective and puts forwards the core idea of the paper—interpreting itself is an activity of intercultural communication. Chapter two puts forward theconcept of “intercultural elements” on the basis of clarifying the role of interpreterand analyzes the impact of intercultural elements on the quality of interpreting indetail. Chapter three discusses how to solve the problem of intercultural elements ininterpreting—improve interpreters’ intercultural capacity. In the chapter, the writertries to explain the intercultural capacity from another angle, that is to say,intercultural capacity includes two parts: the intercultural awareness and the ability toput the intercultural awareness into practice.