On The Cognitive Analysis Of Strategies To Improve Long-term Memory In Interpreting

With the development of the interpretation theory, the studies on interpreting has become increasingly interdisplinary. In view of the importance of memory in interpretation, many scholars concentrate on short-term memory research, while ignoring the important role of long-term memory in interpretation study and practice. In this thesis, the author applies the findings of cognitive psychology to probe into the strategies to improve the interpreter's long-term memory.Cognitive psychology aims at revealing human information processing in the cognitive mechanisms and their inherent interactions. These cognitive mechanisms mainly include feeling, perception, attention, memory, reasoning and so on. From the perspective of cognitive psychology, interpretation is a systematic, strategic information processing process.This thesis first introduces three memory systems and their characteristics, functions operations and interrelations. Then, the author analyzes the significance of long-term memory in particular, and then elaborate factors affecting long-term memory in a cognitive way. Based on this, the author. proposes strategies to improve long-term memory, which include frequent activation of knowledge, the accumulation of prefabricate chunk, chunking, schema building and cognitive ability cultivation. Finally, the author concludes that the use of these strategies can reduce the workload of restructuring, prevent mother tongue's negative transfer, reduce the pressure of language encoding and produce more accurate and fluent target language. .