A Study Of Interpreting Skills From The Perspective Of Interpreting Process

Interpreting, as an important way of communication between people from different countries, has a long history. And with the more and more frequent political, economic and cultural exchanges among countries, it has established its status in international community and become an important and challenging career.However, the study on interpretation has developed for a very short time, especially when compare with the study of written translation. Even in the western world, the interpreting study has a history of only fifty years; in China, it has not started to develop until the last two or three decades of the 20^th century. Ever since the reform and opening up in China, the interpreting study has attracted more and more attention from Chinese scholars. But its development is still on the beginning stage and has a long way to go. In this circumstance, general public seldom has clear understanding of interpreting, even some interpreters lack rational understanding.In recent years, owing to the growth and development of communication between China and other countries, the demand of interpreting professionals has been increasing, a lot of language learners are eager to take part in this career. The professional training of interpreters is emphasized, many universities set interpreting as a major, and exams to test interpreters' qualification are carried out in some big cities, all of which have established sound exterior environment for the development of interpreting. However, the study on interpreting teaching and methodology need to be further developed, since interpreting is trained in the same way as written translation is practiced and language is the only emphasis. In fact, interpreting is different from written translation in many ways. Apart from linguistic skills, interpreters should master many other skills to ensure the success of interpretation. Nowadays, for the studies on interpreting skills are relatively few, many want-to-be interpreters are with no clear understanding with interpreting skills, not knowing what skills should be trained and mastered to be a qualified interpreter.Bearing this in mind, the current thesis starts from the analysis of interpreting process, analyzes the problems and obstacles that may appear in different stages, then...