幻灯片 1 - 南开大学外国语学院精品课程
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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
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:
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