海纳百川有容乃大心AnOverview of InterpretingRen Wen, Professor, PhDCollege of Foreign Languages & Cultures,Sichuan University
An Overview of Interpreting Ren Wen, Professor, PhD College of Foreign Languages & Cultures, Sichuan University
海纳百川有容乃大曲I.BriefHistoryofInterpreting1. Interpreting as a practice1.1 West: Pharaoh's pictographs almost 6,000 years agoChina: Zhou Dynasty (11th-7th Century BC)（先秦时已有“象“译“寄“舌人“狄”等官员）1.2 West: 1st oriental language school established in the 14th CChina: 1st foreign language school established in 1289（元帝忽必烈建“回回国子学”）1.3 West: Christopher Columbus in the 16th CChina：明代永乐年间建‘四夷馆”（1407）清朝顺治年间建四译馆(1644)
I. Brief History of Interpreting 1. Interpreting as a practice 1.1 West: Pharaoh’s pictographs almost 6,000 years ago China: Zhou Dynasty (11th -7th Century BC) （先秦时已有“象”“译”“寄”“舌人”“狄鞮”等官员） 1.2 West: 1st oriental language school established in the 14th C China: 1st foreign language school established in 1289 （元帝忽必烈建“回回国子学”） 1.3 West: Christopher Columbus in the 16th C. China: 明代永乐年间建“四夷馆”（1407）清朝顺治年间 建 四译馆(1644)
海纳百川有容乃大曲2. Interpreting as a profession2.1 ParisPeace Conference in19192.2 Invention of simultaneous interpreting in the 1920s2.3 Nuremberg Trial between 1945 and 19462.4 AIIC (International Association of Conference Interpreters)established in 1953
2. Interpreting as a profession 2.1 Paris Peace Conference in 1919 2.2 Invention of simultaneous interpreting in the 1920s 2.3 Nuremberg Trial between 1945 and 1946 2.4 AIIC (International Association of Conference Interpreters) established in 1953
海纳百川有容乃大曲3. Interpreting as research3.1 Early writing period (1950s-early 1960s)3.2Experimental period (1960s-early1970s)3.3 Practitioners’period (late 1960s-early1980s)3.4 Renewal period (mid 1980s-now)Daniel Gile in Mona Baker, Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies. 4243
3. Interpreting as research 3.1 Early writing period (1950s-early 1960s) 3.2 Experimental period (1960s-early 1970s) 3.3 Practitioners’ period (late 1960s-early 1980s) 3.4 Renewal period (mid 1980s-now) Daniel Gile in Mona Baker, Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies. 42- 43
海纳百川有容乃大曲I. Understanding Interpreting1. What is interpreting?Interpreting is the oral transposition of anorally delivered message froma sourcelanguage to a target language. Its aim is tobridge the language and cultural barriers inthe intercultural communicationTo interpret is to communicateinterculturally with the message sender andthe message receiver whose languages andcultures are unknown to each other
II. Understanding Interpreting 1. What is interpreting? Interpreting is the oral transposition of an orally delivered message from a source language to a target language. Its aim is to bridge the language and cultural barriers in the intercultural communication. To interpret is to communicate interculturally with the message sender and the message receiver whose languages and cultures are unknown to each other