Translation Activities and Thinking Mechanism of Interpreters

Abstract

Humanity has achieved a very valuable understanding of the essence of translation during the long period of translation practice. However, researchers in the past paid more attention to the translation product, while research into the thinking mechanism of translators/interpreters was of little interest to them. Therefore, the conclusions or methods obtained could not be effectively applied to translation practice and translation pedagogy. Through the use of the semantic triangle theory, the authors of the present paper try to describe the fundamental principles of translators and interpreters’ work with the help of a series of experiments in order to learn the translation/interpreting essence through studying the translation/interpreting process.

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