An Analysis On Problems In Conference Interpreting

During the internship in the foreign affairs office of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, on September 7th, on the eve of China-Arab States Expo, the writer and her supervisor were invited to the International Summit Forum on Hui Studies and Cultural Exchanges. During this conference, the writer interpreted for the president of Ningxia University, the deputy director-general of Department of Education of Ningxia and the president of Ningxia Medical University.This interpreting report is finished in accordance with the interpretation practice in this conference. The first part of the report is the background information of the interpreting task, then follows the pre-interpreting preparation works and the interpreting process. In the following part, the writer will give a detailed analysis of the problems in interpreting process based on typical cases and examples, namely, omissions, syntactic and semantic misinterpretation and wrong deverbalization as well as pause concern with source language information, output of target language and strategy of target language, etc. In the latter part, the writer will analyze the inner causes of those problems under the guidance of Gile’s Effort Model Theory and come up with new solutions of those problems. Specifically, good pre-interpreting preparations, making vocabulary-lists, a good command of note-taking skills ans well as reasonable prediction.In conclusion, through cases analysis of the advantages and disadvantages in this interpreting practice, the writer finally come up with practical ways to solve the problems. Hope it can provide us with more interpreting experiences and be the guidance and reference of interpreters in conference interpreting.