Through a dialogical outlook on the interpreted event that treats all participants in a communicative event as doing interpretative work

the author proposes that the interpreter is engaged in the communication process

not only searching a lexical bank

syntactic rules

creating coherent utterances

but also due to the distinct features of dialogue

inevitably performing multi-tasks

such as shifting foot subject to the primary speaker’s alignment

creating turns to resolve silence and embarrassment

stopping and ignoring turns during overlapping of talk for the sake of smooth progression of interaction

and mediating between cultures so as to prevent miscommunication and misunderstanding. By citing examples from real interpreting situations during the period of the social practice in preparing the 7th Asian Pacific Phycological Forum (APPF2014) from September 2013 to October 2014

the author

drawing from Jef Verschueren’s Linguistic Adaptation Theory

would like to discuss the choice-making on the roles of an interpreter and its adaptive strategies made by the interpreter during the process of interpretation under a continuously changing context.