On The Omission In Simultaneous Interpreting From The Perspective Of Cooperative Principle

This dissertation is an attempt to study the phenomenon of omission in SI from the pragmatics perspective. The previous studies on omission are lexical-semantic based and disregard for functional and pragmatics considerations. So there is no surprise that most of these researches only come to one conclusion about the impact of omission—"information loss".Interpreting, as a communicative process, should comply with certain rules. The author has classified omissions into four categories according to Grice's Cooperative Principle and made an in-depth study on the impact of these omissions on SI quality. Based on these explorations, the author has proposed her criterion in assessing omission in SI: as long as the reproduction could still serve for the current purposes of the exchange, omissions occurring in the interpreting process are acceptable.