Different Strategies and Techniques Between Professional and Non-Professional Interpreters for Coping with Noises in Consecutive Interpreting

Interpreting, including simultaneous and consecutive interpreting, is one of the most significant means of intercultural communication. Different factors can affect the content of output of consecutive interpreting, including the speakers accent, the delivery rate of the source speech, tiredness, note-taking, environmental noise and personal factors. Among these factors, the factor of noise will be the focus of this research. In this research, the author conducts experiments for professional and non-professional translators by means of questionnaires and case studies, aiming to summarize and analyze the different translation strategies and techniques preferred and adopted by various groups of translators when faced with noise during consecutive interpreting, as well as exploring the reasons why these differences occur. The preliminary conclusion is that professional translators have a richer and more systematized knowledge base of translation, while the non-professional translators have a less completed one. More details and analysis will be discussed in the text.