Communicative Coping Competences In Interpretation For Special Purposes

The author holds that the current time and market requires an interpreter to rise to the occasion of interpretation for special purposes(ISP). From this perspective, the paper discusses the communicative competences an interpreter needs to successfully facilitate people to overcome the obstacles incurred by language and culture. This is aimed at exploring the research in ISP and offering the theoretical foundations.In the body of the paper, the author believes ISP interpreters must master a lot of specialized knowledge and he adapts the requirements for general interpreters. Taking the real tasting event(TE) as an analysis, the author illustrates how a successful ISP serves common characteristics and deliver varied and adapted configurations.To begin with, the author introduces the history, research, classification of interpretation, requirements of interpreters and ISP and its relationship with interpretation.Based on this, the paper analyzes how the dynamic, symbolic and transactional characteristic of communication and Lasswell's formula for communication, Cooperative Principle and Politeness Principle can be applied to TE and also comes up with their limitations in ISP.After that, the author makes an approach to the ISP communicative competences revolving around the specific communicative coping competences including knowledge competence, context coping competence, schema-based competence and non-verbal communication competence.Last but not least, the author concludes the paper and points out the ISP pedagogy is open for further discussion for teachers, students and practitioners.