Report On The Professionalization Of Court Interpreting In Guangzhou

In this report, the period2008-2013is chosen as the subject of research, whencourt interpreting in Guangzhou has gone through changes that are reflected inself-designed questionnaires to court interpreters, and interviews with judges andcourt interpreter employers. These constitute the primary data. Second-hand data areacquired to make a comparison with the first-hand ones. Within the framework of thetheory of control and the model of Tseng, the trend of court interpretingprofessionalization in Guangzhou is concluded and further suggestions are giventhereafter.The findings are features that court interpreting professionalization in Guangzhouhas over the past6years: it is more influential on the control of expertise and ofadmission to the profession, but it remains roughly the same old in controls overmystification, code of ethics and over the market. When put in Tseng’s model, it isfound that during the past years it is representing some features of Phase II, Phase IIIand even Phase IV, despite that it is largely on the Phase I basis. Concrete suggestionsfor its future development include court interpreting handbook, accreditation testcontracted to certain education institutions, sourcing pool of court interpretingmaterials for non-English court hearings, etc. They are to standardize the market ofcourt interpreting, to safeguard rights to court interpreters and to better up their futureperspective, and to guarantee the equality and fairness of foreigner-related courthearings in China.