Self-repairs And Tactics In English-chinese Consecutive Interpreting

Self-repair in interpreting is inevitable.As the goal of interpreting is to accurately and fluently convey the speaker’s message to the audience,appropriate self-repair can improve the accuracy of communication.However,excessive self-repair might reduce the fluency of interpreting,diminishing the listening experience and audience’ trust in interpreters.The thesis adopts a webinar named How to Control Health Care Costs＿Lessons from Abroad hosted by the Brookings Institution as the case for analysis.Self-repairs in the interpreting of this webinar can be divided into five categories: errorrepairs,precision-repairs,explicitness-repairs,synonymy-repairs,and restartingrepairs.The thesis analyzes the causes of self-repairs and strategies to reduce selfrepairs.The study finds out that there are three aspects of factors that cause self-repairs in English-Chinese consecutive interpreting: inter-language,intra-language,and extralanguage.Inter-language factors include inadequate listening skills and failure to deverbalize.Intra-language factors include influence from a mother-tongue dialect and excessively constant refrains.Extra-language factors include poor pre-interpreting preparation and perfectionism.To reduce self-repairs,in the inter-language aspect,interpreters should improve listening skills and deverbalization.In the intra-language aspect,interpreters should practice Mandarin more and reduce constant refrains.In the extra-language aspect,interpreters should prepare better and avoid being perfectionists.