Ristriction On And Freedom Of English Interpreters

The overwhelming fact of human languages has been its orality. Derived from translation, interpretation has more than pure translation difficulties. Interpretation is an interdisciplinary subject encompassing communicative theory, cultural theory, linguistics, diplomatic theory, field knowledge and so on. The interpreter's task is to instill meaning into the text for the target audience within shortest time by re-expressing the source speaker's speech. He must be restricted from language barrier, nonverbal barrier, cultural barrier and the barrier of speaker's intention. Under this occasion the interpreter is the obedient follower of the speaker's restrictive power. Meanwhile, interpretation like other oral activities is an act of communication. Interpreters are attentive listeners, active note-takers, careful analyzers, and fluent speech conveyers. Human beings are entitled to inferential ability from contextual clues. On the basis of deverbalization or interpretative theory, interpreters have access to different coping strategies. Besides, as for language acquisition, it includes not only lingual elements, but also is grounded in the economic, political, cultural and communicative conditions of people's lives. These need interpreter's active accumulation and awareness. In this sense, interpreters are free communication facilitators. Therefore, as combination of restriction and freedom, interpreters are making full use of free strategies to emancipate themselves from restrictive power--dancers with fetters. Interpreters' training is combination of restrictive language and encyclopedic knowledge required for listening comprehension and freedom of creative interpreting delivery and free adoption of individual's language sensibility. As practice and experience are increasing, interpreters will find them enjoy more and more freedom and ignore restrictive power.