Factors Affecting Interpretation Process

Interpretation Process Name: Institutional Affiliations: 1) What are the factors that affect delivery in interpreting? Introduction Interpreting is an important part of communication since it influences how people understand or fail to understand a certain piece of information. The interpretation process plays a significant process in enabling people to understand each other, especially where there are different languages of dialects that are used (Kalina, 2015). Some of the factors that affect interpretation include comprehension, conversion, and delivery of the message. However, translators and interpreters can adapt certain mechanisms in order to reduce the challenges of misinterpretation. For instance, it is important to understand the speaker and the way he drives his message before translating. This paper analyzes the factors affecting interpretation and ways of tackling them. The process of interpreting involves three vital steps that include comprehension, delivery, and conversion. The processes need to be analyzed differently to understand the complexity of the interpreting process. The first process is comprehension and it involves understanding what the other person is communicating. According to Coupland, Sarangi, and Candlin (2001), communication is in itself miscommunication. In his argument, Coupland and colleagues argue that communication among people is impossible and that all interactions create misunderstanding. The argument is that no two people understand the same word in the same exact way. In short, no two languages are the same to be considered as representing the same social reality. The process of conversation is a complex set of issues, and it is even more complicated especially when two cultures or languages are involved. The establishment is that comprehension does not involve receptive passive process. However, it depends crucially on what already exists. Therefore, processing new information involves representation of new information and integrating new input with pre-existing knowhow such as syntactic, lexical, encyclopedic, and pragmatic (Coupland, Sarangi & Candlin, 2001). However, the complexity does not hinder translators and interpreters ability to reproduce the precise meaning of the words. Charity is another principle that states that humans share common ground by virtual of being human. Therefore, the more background we share, the more possibility of understanding each other. Thus, understanding has been a complicated process and enterprise, it is a possible process by extension and so is the act of translation. For instance, Moeketsi, and Wallmach, (2005) claim that the act of overindulging in ideas such as untranslatability or inadequacy of human communication lead to lack of success in training the interpreters and translators. The result is that it reduces the chance of such people developing a self-image in their profession. There are many sources of misunderstanding which include the discourse-internal and the ones that are discourse-external. The taxonomy of discourse-internal tends to range from misunderstanding to miscommunication in the interpretation process. It includes all levels of language ranging from pragmatic to phonetic. That is to imply that there is the potential ...