A Report On Chinese-english Simulated Consecutive Interpreting Of Classroom Lecture“Tea And The Road For Tea Trade”

This is a report on Chinese-English Simulated Consecutive Interpreting of Classroom Lecture “Tea and the Road for Tea Trade”. This classroom lecture is given by Mrs. Teng Lanhua, a professor engages in the study of history and cultural geography of Southwest China from the College of Ethnology and Sociology at Guangxi University for Nationalities, and attended by foreign students from Asean countries, foreign teachers and some students from GXUN who have interest in Chinese culture and history. This simulated interpreting is done mainly with the guidance of the Skopos Theory. The three rules of the Skopos Theory which break the constraints of the traditional equivalence-based theory, emphasize the purpose of the interpreting and point out that the interpreter can take any tactics to achieve the communicative purpose.This thesis gives an introduction to the background of this task, including the information of the lecturer and the participants. Then the author gives a description of the process of this task, which involves the pre-task preparations, the on-the-sport interpreting and the post-interpreting evaluation. Based on the three rules of the Skopos Theory, i.e., the skopos rule, the coherence rule and the fidelity rule, a detailed analysis of relevant typical interpreting examples has been made, including the analysis of the satisfactory interpreting examples as well as the inappropriate ones.Since this classroom lecture interpreting is themed on culture and history, the interpretation of the culture-loaded expressions is specially analyzed. In the end, this report summarizes the experiences drawn from this simulative consecutive interpreting task.