Different Uses Of Additions Between Professional And Novice Interpreters In C-E Consecutive Interpreting

As one of the studies which focus on features of the product of the interpreter, additions tend to attract the attention of the interpreter researchers. Regrettably, all studies concerning this are mainly concentrated on the product of simultaneous interpreter, while less on the one of consecutive interpreter. This study investigated the characteristics of the two large addition types—linguistic addition and extra-linguistic addition and their subtypes in the products of a professional interpreter and novices in C-E consecutive interpreting.The translation theory of the interpretive school and cognitive processes were examined. According to these theories, a tentative theoretical framework was first established, and under whose guidance specific research questions for the present study were generated.To answer these questions, the author used 20 postgraduates from School of Interpreting and Translation Studies of Guangdong University as novices since they are lack of experience in conference interpreting to compare with the professional interpreter who works for the national press conference with the material of Wen Jiabao's speech in the press conference in 2006.Analysis of the corpus yielded the following major findings: first, additions in linguistic level including relationship and personal pronoun, are necessary in C-E consecutive interpreting because of the different language structures; second, additions in extra-linguistic level containing contextual addition, qualifier addition, closure addition, repetition; third, the false starts contained in the novices' interpretation reflects the performance experience of interpreter, that is, the professional interpreter paid more attention to the context since he sensed his role as a communication-facilitator and at the same time, the novices paid more attention to the form of language so that they would correct the interpreting when they realized mistakes.