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Strategies for Abating Intercultural Noise in InterpretingJing Chen

Volume 52, Number 3, septembre 2007

URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/016737arDOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/016737ar

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ISSN0026-0452 (print)1492-1421 (digital)

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Cite this articleChen, J. (2007). Strategies for Abating Intercultural Noise in Interpreting. Meta,52(3), 529–541. https://doi.org/10.7202/016737ar

Article abstractThe nature of interpreting and the task it fulfills decide that it is anintercultural communicative act. There are two types of intercultural noisedisturbing the communication process, that originating from the informationsent by the source-language speaker, and that coming from the social, culturaland situational context of the communication process. Intercultural noiseimpedes the interpreting process and debases the quality of interpreting. If theideal function of an interpreter is to ensure smooth communication betweenthe primary parties, then his role is to remedy any potential intercultural noisein the channel. This paper then aims to formulate concrete interculturalnoise-reducing strategies, which include long-term strategies, pre-interpretingstrategies and during-interpreting strategies.