Report On Liaison Interpreting On A Business Trip To India

As the international trading grows rapidly and international trading becomes greater shares in China's economy,interpreting has been playing an important role in commerce.Liaison interpreting,as a typical form of interpreting,is widely applied in diplomacy,commerce,tourism,law,medicine and other occasions.Based on a meeting between a Chinese company and an Indian company,this report analyzes various problems during the preparation and interpretation.This report includes four parts.The first chapter describes the task and introduces the participants to illustrate the business background.The next chapter focuses on the elaboration of the pre-interpreting preparation and the interpreting process,mainly related to trading terminology,predicted difficulties and the proper ways to deal with problems during on-the-spot stage.Chapter Three is about the case analysis and the author gives some examples to demonstrate interpreter's visibility consciousness and adaptions to cultural differences.The last chapter summarizes the whole work.On the basis of the job description,the case study and reflections,the report concludes:(1)Great attention should be paid to visibility consciousness by the liaison interpreter to guarantee the smooth and successful communication.(2)Because of the different cultural traditions and participants' characters,misunderstandings might happen,which could possibly lead to disputes.When misunderstanding arises,the interpreter shall play the role of cultural mediator as well as language converter to release the tension by proper means.(3)When the dialogue is about certain industry which the interpreter is not as familiar with as the speaker,multiple methods,besides pre-interpreting preparations,such as reasonable inferring and turning to the speaker for clarification are indispensable to reach a high-quality interpretation.