Transcript 幻灯片 1 - 南开大学外国语学院精品课程

Preparing for Conferences: A
Theme-based Approach
By Dr. Wang Chuanying
The Dept. of Interpretation & Translation, Nankai
University
Course Description
An integral part of Simultaneous Interpreting
(SI) training course
Targeting 2nd year graduate students
majoring in SI
Focusing on English-Chinese interpreting
but applicable to Chinese-English
Skills testable by resorting to a role-play
Globalization and Inequality
Statement of Purposes
3 purposes for today’s workshop:
 Analyze the possibility of preparing for a conference
 Discuss a theme-based approach for preparatory work
 Test techniques with excerpts from a real conference
Some Truths about SI
Conference-oriented
Language skills are important
“Correspondence effect” is very desirable
Unreliable organizer(s) in terms of
advance information
Flowchart of Conference Interpreting
Flowchart of Conference Interpreting
Role-Play:
Globalization and Inequality
Flowchart of Conference Interpreting
Assignments
1. Independent search for other 3 speakers (Jeffrey
Sachs, George Soros and Mark Malloch-Brown)
2. Further brainstorming the topic with more
information from different sources (books, journal
articles, etc.)
Tip: All three speakers have personal homepages
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Thank you for attending!
Your further comments and
instructions are highly
appreciated!
5 Knowns
Theme
Organizers
Names
5 Knowns
Agenda
Highlights
Theme-based Preparation: Does it work ?
General scanning
Specific search
Information about
keynote speakers
Brainstorming
the intended
topic
Lifepath
Major career
achievements
Impact on others
“Correspondence
effect”
Available sources for
personnel search:
Search engines
(e.g. Google):
Personal homepage
Biography
Autobiography( if any)
Traditional sources:
Who is who?
Encyclopedia
Role-play: Globalization and Inequality
Globalization and Inequality
The Earth Institute at Columbia
University directed by Jeffrey Sachs
Theme
Organizers
Jeffrey Sachs,
George Soros, ,
Mark Malloch-Brown,
Joseph Stiglitz
Names
5 Knowns
Agenda
one-day meeting, roughly
15 minutes for each speaker
followed by a panelists debate
Highlights
based on news release available
3 weeks ahead of the conference
Interesting Discoveries of Joseph Stiglitz
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2001 Nobel laureate in economics for contribution to information economics
Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank, 1997- 2000
First a member, then chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors
of Clinton administration during 1993-97
 Influenced by John Maynard Keynes who emphasized fiscal policy
over monetary policy, or ‘stimulus’ in Stiglitz’s word
 Disagrees with US Treasury and IMF on their proposed rapid market
liberalization program for the developing world
 The author of many books and articles.
Most recent books concerning globalization include:
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Globalization and Its Discontents
The Roaring Nineties
Towards a New Paradigm in Monetary Economics
Fair Trade for All
Making Globalization Work (forthcoming)
Excerpts from the video