Talking About Interpretation In n Intercultural Context
A Case Study of Chinese Humbleness and Modesty
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https://doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol2.iss4.175Keywords:
interpreter, interpretation, intercultural context, intercultural communication competence, Chinese culture, American culture, humbleness, modestyAbstract
An interpretation is an important work for people to communicate with other people from different cultural background. An interpreter not only translates a sentence or an idiom but also provides the equivalent sentence or an idiom in the target language. Meanwhile, the interpreter should go in the cultural adaptation and gives mutual understanding and comprehension in an intercultural context。 Thus, the author takes a case as an example to show that no one can easily and effectively act as an interpreter. The paper analyzes and discusses the relationships between language and culture, intercultural communication and interpreter. And then the author points out that any successful interpreter must be good at both target languages and cultures, he or she needs to interpret the meaning with acceptable cultural elements of the original speech, and so as to be a qualified interpreter for intercultural communication between different people from different cultural backgrounds.
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