A Practice Report On Interpreting For An Engineering Machinery Seminar

With the new development of science and technology, and the increase of international cooperation and communication concerning this theme, the demand for sci-tech interpreting is also on the rise. However, in comparison with other types of interpreting, sci-tech interpreting is a frequent subject for research due to its specialty and difficulty. At the same time, Daniel Gile's Effort Model Theory well illustrates the concepts of attention distribution, effort, load and deload, etc. from the cognitive perspective. Through adopting and manipulating this theory, the research on interpreting activity, both physical and psychological, will be more thorough with height. Taking sci-tech interpreting as the study subject, and the Effort Model Theory as the theoretical framework, this thesis picks out 10 cases (most are error cases), which are representative and typical for analysis, from the interpreting practice for Zoomline's Engineering Machinery Seminar in 2015. Through the description of the specific problems, their triggers and corresponding coping strategies in the process of practice, this thesis is expected to be expanded from a micro level to a macro one, and to understand and probe into sci-tech interpreting in a more cognitive thinking manner.