Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the narrative approach could be useful
for listeners utilizing oral interpretation. For this purpose, interviewing was used to collect
data from nine Japanese who participated in an English-to-Japanese mediated lecture held at
a local community center. The interviews were analyzed using a narrative approach and
revealed that different users would use the same words to describe their own experiences of
interpretation, although the meanings that each user gave the words was slightly different due
to their own individual differences. This suggests that such differences in meaning could only
be brought to light through a detailed analysis of their narratives.
https://ror.org/05aevyc10 
