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Memory Mechanism and Training Approaches in Consecutive Interpretation

Author: ZhangXia
Tutor: ZouWeiNing
School: Ocean University of China
Course: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Keywords: Consecutive interpretation memory mechanism memory training
CLC: H059
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2010
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Abstract

Within the global scenarios of politics, culture, economy, etc., to answer the urgent call of those cross-cultural communications in various fields, interpretation is not only a required course for junior and senior English majors in quite a few universities and language institutions in China, but also a popular optional training subject for many foreign-related employees. Most of these courses focus on language capacity training (or called "word-sentence-passage" training), note-taking or theme translation, while underscores memory, cognitive knowledge or coping tactics for interpretation time and again, let alone spending efforts in exploring scientifically the nature and extent of memory mechanism, especially the factors affecting its successful functioning. As a complicated and difficult mental labor accompanied by great effort, interpreting involves language perception, comprehension, translation and production operations in parallel and under severe time pressure. During the complicated processing of interpreting, memory comes into effect from the very first listening phase to the last reproducing phase, since the instantaneous flow of the message and the limited time lag between the speaker and the interpreter ask for excellent memory performance of interpreters. With the interaction of the three memory systems (sensory memory, short-term memory & long-term memory), the interpreter is able to find the equivalents in target language to reproduce the speech successfully. Therefore, it is the memory that counts in interpretation, and scientific training of memory is the most efficient way to make a successful interpreter. Hence the need for a unified, systematic instruction of memory mechanism operating in CI as well as a set of effective interpretative memory training approaches becomes increasingly urgent.By introducing several representative studies in the field of interpretation and combining with the related achievements of cognitive research, psychology, psycholinguistics, the author explicates Daniel Gile’s Effort Model and La Theorie du sens represented by Danica Seleskovitch and Marianne Lederer, information-processing theory, and the interpretative theory. The next part of the thesis mainly probe into the types of memory, their distinctive characteristics and functions. With a hope to further improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the training and enrich the memory training methods in this field at large, a set of comprehensive and structured memory training approaches with the methods drawn from psychological researches and interpreting studies, from the angle of STM training and LTM training as well as interaction between memory and note-taking respectively are suggested.The benefit of this thesis lies in offering several relevant theories and background information that could bring in new lines of research on interpreting and on interpreter training. What’s more, the study gives a separate training system for STM and LTM so as to enhance the specific aspect with a clearer and more efficient manner. The author hopes that this thesis can give some inspirations for accelerating the interpretation study to a new high.

Memory Mechanism and Training Approaches in Consecutive Interpretation

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