社区口译新趋势——电话口译

Telephone Interoreting as a New Trend in Community Interpreting

随着来华居住的外籍人士不断增加,中国这样一个非传统移民国家也开始有了对社区口译的较大需求。针对国内口译界一直较多关注会议口译而忽视其他口译形式的现状,本文对社区口译的概念、特点及其研究历史进行了简要回顾,重点探讨了社区口译中出现的电话口译这一新趋势。文章以美国为例述介了电话口译兴起的政治经济背景及其目前的发展态势,剖析了电话口译的交际特征,对比了电话口译与传统的面对面口译各自具有的优势与局限,最后分析了影响电话口译未来在中国发展的几大要素。

Though a non-immigrant country, China has been receiving an increasing number of short- and long-term overseas visitors over the years and is hence in a growing need for community interpreting (CI), a form of interpreting neglected in China. After a brief introduction to CI and the history of its research, this paper focuses on a new area of its application, i.e., telephone interpreting (TI). Using the United States as a case study, the authors analyze the reasons behind the boom of TI, examine its communicative features, and compare it with face-to-face interpreting. The paper ends with an exploration of possible factors that may impact future development of TI in China.