A Practice Report On E-c And C-e Consecutive Interpreting Of A Follow-up Project Meeting With Foreign Experts In A Chinese Company

This is a practical report on English-Chinese and Chinese-English consecutive interpreting task.A follow-up project meeting with foreign experts in a Chinese automotive company was chosen as the material of this report.This report is based on a 40-minute excerpt of the whole meeting,which the original agenda of the conference is about 6 hours.This report is written with many researches and analysis.In this report,the author introduces and analyzes the process of the E-C(English-Chinese)and C-E(Chinese-English)consecutive interpretation in detail.Using Interpretive School of Translation Theory and Daniel Gile's Effort Models and comprehension equation,the author analyzes and summarizes the emergence of the problems,the causes of the problems and their solutions.This report is a hands-on experience during the period of the author's internship in the company.Due to the lack of experience in interpreting transcripts,some typical and common problems have emerged during the interpretation.Therefore,it is of great significance to those interpreters who are newly involved in society of this field.During the interpreting process,misinterpretations have been made due to lacking of vocabulary,unfamiliar with some interpreting skills,and misunderstanding of the speaker,etc.Owing to the long speaking duration and lacking background information,some pieces of information has been lost.In this report,some interpreting strategies have been raised,such as: syntactic linearity,supplementation,and recheck with the speaker.In addition,this report of interpretation practice involves the usage of automotive vocabulary and their translation,and it can provide some advice for the automotive industry practitioners.The author hopes this practical report can provide some reference for interpreting practitioners and translation researchers.