Concision In E-C Simultaneous Interpreting In Light Of The Effort Model

Simultaneous interpreting has been increasingly widely used since the Second World War due to its effectiveness in multilingual communication. Nowadays, simultaneous interpreting has developed into an independent discipline and has become a popular profession. Simultaneous interpreting between English and Chinese is the most widely-used form of simultaneous interpreting in China, but the job requires tactics as well as solid command of the languages. Concision is an indispensable tactic. The proper use of the tactic can improve production quality, and save efforts so the interpreter can have better coordination among different tasks.The mother tongue of most professional interpreters and student interpreters is Chinese; therefore, some first learners take it for granted that English-Chinese is comparatively easy for their mother tongue is Chinese. Once the interpreter understands the meaning of the original speech, he or she can do the job smoothly, but the product of most student interpreters is frequently un-presentable with messy or incomplete information.Based on these factors, this thesis adopts the effort model to analyze the differences between professional interpreters and student interpreters in the application of concision tactics through a comparative study of the recordings of professional interpreters and student interpreters to prove the feasibility of concision in English-Chinese simultaneous interpreting, and to improve the production quality. The result shows that student interpreters tend to be faithful with whatever comes in, instead of consciously applying concision tactics. Therefore, they cannot keep up with the speaker, end end up with messy delivery.