The Information-centered Memory Approach And Its Application In Consecutive Interpreting

Throughout history, no nation or country lived without exchanges with the outside world. And interpreting served as an indispensable part among these exchanges since language became the biggest barrier for communication among people from different cultures. More can be said in the new era with globalization. However, research on interpreting is not well-developed yet so that beginners may have difficulties in interpreting practices even they are well aware of relevant interpreting theories. And this thesis is meant to combine the relevant interpreting theories and cognitive psychology with interpreting practices to explore a practical method for interpreters, especially for beginners. Through the analysis of cases and examples, the practical memory approach is expected to give some hints on the skills of interpreting.On the basis of interpretive theory, this paper focuses on a practical methodology, the so-called information-centered memory approach. To explain the memory approach, this paper firstly introduces theories on memory from the perspective of cognitive psychology to provide theoretical basis for the information-centered memory approach. Then, the paper will further support the memory approach from the perspectives of interpreting theories, linguistics and cultural differences. Meanwhile, an experiment concerning memory will be conducted to further prove the validity of information-centered memory approach. The most importance part of the paper is the application of the information-centered memory approach in consecutive interpreting. Advices and suggestions will be rendered to give beginners hints on interpreting skills. And in the conclusion part, thesis will focus on the expectation of the development of interpreting as well as the limitation of the thesis.