On The Influence Of Sense-Based Theory Upon Comprehension In Consecutive Interpretation

As a newly developed career as well as a relatively young discipline, interpretation has aroused much attention from translation scholars and even the society at large with its particular working and research characteristics. Simultaneous interpretation, which is one major kind of interpretation, has become a golden career in China in the 21st century. However, under the condition that interpretation is always done simultaneously and extemporarily, some people may have little understanding and even misunderstandings sometimes about it. Based upon the French sense-based theory of interpretation, this paper takes consecutive interpretation as the research object in order to prove whether or not sense-based theory has any positive influence on interpreting process by monitoring the characteristics of consecutive interpretation process. The focus of sense-based theory lies in the word "sense", by which this theory for the first time put forward the idea that interpretation should "deverbalise" the word cover of the original speech and abstract "sense" out of it. In monitoring and analyzing interpreting process, especially the comprehension process, the author does find that there really is "deverbalisation" happening in interpretation. Therefore by reasoning of the above hypothesis, the paper seeks to uncover the mystery of interpretation and let common people know better about the essence and working principle of interpretation.