An Analysis Of The Factors Affecting The Successful Functioning Of Comprehension Mechanism In Consecutive Interpretation

Interpretation, as a complex cross-cultural communicative activity, plays a role of bridge in economic as well as cultural development and exchanges."Comprehension"is the key step in fulfilling successful interpretation. Accurate reproduction is possible only on the ground of comprehension. The comprehension mechanism in interpretation is complex, involving many factors such as memory, attention, cognitive schema, language proficiency, context and etc. Through making use of the established theories in linguistics, particularly in psycholinguistics, by combining the related fruits of cognitive research, and by analyzing several representative studies in the field of interpretation, this thesis probes into the comprehension mechanism in consecutive interpretation and anatomizes the factors which affect its successful functioning to a relatively full extent. On the ground of such a careful study, the thesis analyzes the negative and positive aspects of these factors, classifies them into linguistic ones and non-linguistic ones, provides examples and suggests the corresponding strategies taken in training. This thesis particularly advocates the introduction of psychological trainings, for instance, the introduction of the conscious anti-disturbance training, in the cultivation of interpreters. Furthermore, this thesis attaches great importance to the memory training in the cultivation of interpreters.