The Conference Consecutive Interpreter's Addition Strategy In The Light Of Cooperative Principle

With the Cooperative Principle put forward by linguist Grice as the theoretical basis and through studying the state-level interpreters'performances in press conference interpreting settings over the recent years, the present study aims at studying the addition strategy in consecutive interpreting from an interdisciplinary perspective. To begin with, after introducing addition strategy in interpreting and the content of Cooperative Principle, the author gives a literary review of its definition and classifications offered by the interpreting research community at home and abroad. And the author defines addition strategy and classifies it linguistically and extra-linguistically with sufficient examples (Chinese-English). Then, the author explores and analyses reasons for the addition strategy from two angles: language environment and cognitive environment. On such bases, the author then integrates CP with its four maxims and addition strategy to explore Cooperative Principle's significance to the strategy. At last, based on the case study, the author conducts a qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the addition strategy in the press conference, and then puts forward some ways of improving addition strategy, e.g., language competence enhancement, cultural language enhancement, the improvement of memory skill and not-taking skill and anticipation ability in the press conference.