Interpreting across Schema Gaps in Intercultural Communication

摘要

Interpreting is an act of intercultural communication. The interpreter has to interpret across subjects, languages and cultures to make intercultural communication successful. During such a communicative process, there are schematic gaps for the interpreter to overcome, such as language schema gaps, cultural schema gaps and so on. The interpreter has to interpret across schema gaps to help people who speak a different language communicate with each other. In this paper, schema gaps in intercultural communication are analyzed, and strategies are given on how to overcome schema gaps in intercultural communication through interpreting.