TITLE:
Simultaneous Interpreting Output Assessment of Earnings Conference Call: Case Analysis of Tencent 2022 Q3 Result Announcement
AUTHORS:
Hongfei Li, Jinyu Liu
KEYWORDS:
Interpreting Quality Assessment, Earnings Conference Call, Fidelity, Fluency, Appropriacy
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Applied Sciences,
Vol.14 No.1,
January
31,
2024
ABSTRACT: Quality
in simultaneous interpreting is a frequently discussed concept. In the
enterprise setting, earnings conference call remains a rarely explored field.
This thesis offers a descriptive study on assessing interpreting quality from
perspectives of fidelity, fluency, and appropriacy. As the corpus, Tencent 2022
Third Quarter Result Announcement provides an ideal transcript to the author to
conduct its analysis. Interpreting is frequently done without bearing in mind
the multitude of factors that can affect the quality of interpreting. Drawing a
conclusion that the interpreter does make a lot of omissions, pauses and
hesitations posing a negative effect on the fidelity, fluency and accuracy of
the interpreting, the present author suggests that
more preparation should be done for improving performance, such as
terminologies, company background information, a reasonable speech rate, good
image and acoustic quality, and so on.