The role of the emotional-empathic component of communicative competence in interpreters' work

In this day and age of globalisation and the development of contacts between countries, consecutive interpreting has a special role to play, which facilitates the emergence and maintenance of links between people from different cultures. Various interactions between peoples (political, economic, cultural, travel) are carried out through consecutive interpretation.
The purpose of the study is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the quality of consecutive interpreting based on the emotional competence of the interpreter and to consider the role of the emotional-empathic component of communicative competence in the work of consecutive interpreters.
Methods. The methods of component and structural analysis, formalisation, and logical comparison were used in this article. Consecutive interpreting in different types of discourse – religious, entertainment, political – was analysed. As a result of the study, the nature of the phenomenon of empathy, its role in consecutive interpreting, as well as the influence of emotion-empathy interaction skills on the quality of consecutive interpreting were determined, and it was established that in the process of communication, the emotive component can be expressed through verbal and non-verbal means of communication. Verbal means of expression include vocabulary with emotional-evaluative connotation and a certain organised syntax of the statement; non-verbal means include intonation, tone of voice, interjections, gestures, facial expressions and eye movements, pause.
Conclusion. The relevance of the research is determined by the fact that with the growth of the emotional component in speech, the translator faces new tasks: to recognise hidden and overt means of emotionality transmission, to determine them, and to make a translation decision - to convey (or not toconvey) them in the process of translation.

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