A Study Of Cognitive Model In Simultaneous Interpretation Process

Western researchers have been studying translation process for a long time, but these researches are almost focused on the process of written translation, with little attention on the analysis of interpreting process. Nowadays, interpreting becomes more popular than ever, but the study of interpreting process has not witnessed a great progress. There only exist few researches on the process of interpreting and seldom are researchers of China in this field.Interpreting is divided into simultaneous interpreting (SI) and consecutive interpreting (CI). This thesis is devoted to the study of simultaneous interpreting process. On the basis of retrospection of the former models, this paper aims to analyze the SI process from psycholinguistic point of view. Speech production theory and communication chain will be used in this paper. Different from the former models, SI process is divided into the following stages in this thesis: perception, comprehension and production. There are sub-stages in each stage.Introspection is mainly adopted in this research to analyze the SI process proposed by the author. And in order to enhance the validity and reliability of this research, twenty postgraduates who have abundant interpreting experience are selected to be the subjects. After analyzing testing results and interviewing the subjects, it is found that the SI process of the subjects is consistent with the SI process proposed in this research. Thus, the hypothesis of this research is proved to be true.The process of SI is an integrated and complex embodiment of cognitive processes. Theoretically speaking, analysis towards SI process can help us better understand human brain's thinking model and testifying conclusions of psycholinguistics. At the same time, it also bears significant meaning to deepening interpreting research and supplementing interpreting theories. From the perspective of practice, research towards SI process can render some referential assistance to training of qualified simultaneous interpreters, quality assessment of SI performance and compiling of textbooks.