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4.1 Improving Interpreter's Cross-cultural Awareness
Language and culture are interwoven with each other in cross-cultural communication. Language is the carrier of culture and language is 汪 component ofculture. Interpretation is an act of cross-cultural communication. In cross-culturalbusiness interpretation, the interpreter is faced with the difficulty to transmit both thelanguage and culture for two business parties with different cultural backgrounds.Therefore,, the interpreter plays an essential role in business negotiations. The function. of the interpreter can be depicted as a bridge connecting the different languages andcultures in the business setting.R.Taft emphasizes the importance interpreter's cultural competence and definesthe interpreter as "a cultural mediator”. According to him, a cultural mediator is aperson who facilitates communication, understanding and action betweencommunities with different cultures and languages. Served as a cultural link, theinterpreter must have not only bilingual ability but also a "bilingual vision". That is tosay, besides having proficient bilingual ability, a qualified interpreter must always beaware of the culture of both the source language and the target language and try toconnect or bridge over the gap between the two different cultures.
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Conclusion

Under the guidance of Thomas's theory of cross-cultural pragmatic failure, thisthesis is a tentative study on cross-cultural pragmatic failures in businessinterpretation carried out from the perspectives of pragmatics and cross-culturalcommunication. The thesis starts from reviewing the relevant literatures and theorieson interpretation, pragmatics and pragmatic failure, and then analyzes the examples ofpragmatic failures occurring in business interpretation collected from realinterpretation audio/video records, business English textbooks as well asinterpretation textbooks. Different pragmatic failures are classified with specificexamples and reasons of pragmatic failure are explored. Finally, some tentativestrategies are suggested to reduce pragmatic failures. Based on the previous analysisand discussions，this chapter will summarize the major finding in this research andthen point out the implication of this study. Finally limitation and suggestions forfurther study will be offered.
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