A Report On English-chinese Consecutive Interpreting Of Lecture “Saying No In Different Culture”

This paper is a report on the consecutive interpreting of a speech which is about how to give responses of NO in China and America. With the deepening of the globalization, culture interpretation has become more and more important. Cultures exert influence on almost every aspect of our people's life, so only by doing a good job in the interpretation of culture-specific information can we facilitate the communication between people from different cultures. This interpreting is an interpretation of a culture-specific speech, which is guided by the Schema Theory.The speaker who comes from America is an oral English teacher. The audiences are students who will study abroad, teachers and staff members who work in private companies. The author serves as the interpreter for the speech. In this report, the first chapter draws forth the background and the theoretical framework of this interpreting task. The second chapter gives a detailed description of the whole process of the interpreting. Chapter three elaborates a case analysis based on the Schema Theory, which is mainly carried out from the perspective of content schema and formal schema. Chapter four makes the conclusion of the interpreting. On the basis of the case analysis, there comes the two main results:First, the prediction based on content schemata can help improve the accuracy of the interpretation; Secondly, formal schemata facilitates the logical analysis of the source information and the accuracy of the rendering. To sum up, the quality of the interpreting is greatly influenced by schematic knowledge, so the interpreters need to pay special attention to the accumulation of schematic knowledge.