Application Of Communication Strategies To Consecutive Interpreting Of Sino-US Joint Press Conference

Strategic competence plays a significant role in interpreting. When an interpreter encounters interpreting difficulties, he/she will employ some communication strategies for interpreting to proceed smoothly. At present, the studies of communication strategies at home and abroad mainly focus on foreign language teaching and oral communication. The studies of communication strategies applied to interpreting are still at the starting stage. Therefore, the present study aims to research the application of communication strategies to consecutive interpreting and find out the relationship between the application of communication strategies and the quality of consecutive interpreting by taking 30 subjects, who have been trained on interpreting for one year, as research subjects and collecting data by recording, stimulate ecall and transcription.Supported by the effort models, a quantitative study and a qualitative study are adopted to analyze the application of communication strategies to consecutive interpreting. To begin with, the present study takes President Obama's speech in Sino-US conference in 2009 as an interpreting taskto test 30 subjects; then, the effort models are employed to analyze the application of communication strategies; furthermore, by reference of Prof. Yang Chengshu's "Evaluation form of Interpreting Test" as evaluation criterion, this test is evaluated by two sophisticated interpreting teachers from the aspects of fidelity delivery and language. Finally, by inputting the scores of all students and the frequency of eight communication strategies to SPSS the in dependent-sample t-test, Spearman's correlations analysis and logistic regression have ben done.The research finds that generalization is the most popular strategy among the subjects and the next is approximation; there is no significant diffeence in using the communication strategies between the high-score students and the low-score students, but the high-score students tend to use more approximation and paraphrasing than the low-score students; the quality of consecutive interpreting and the application of these two communication strategies show a positive correlation. The research shows that the encouragement of using approximation and paraphrasing should be given, but they cannot be overused.