The Obtainment Of The Cooperative Principle In Consecutive Interpretation

Currently, according to AIIC, consecutive interpretation is still an important and widely used means of interpretation in China and other third-world countries. Even in the training of simultaneous interpreters, consecutive interpretation belongs to one of the essential training programs. The scientific research on consecutive interpretation will undoubtedly be beneficial to both the teaching and learning of interpretation and the practical work of interpreters. Now the research work on interpretation takes on a multidisciplinary trend, for instance, from the perspective of psychology, multicultural communication, semiology, or cognitive pragmatics. Ever since Grice first put forward it, the Cooperative Principle has been generally viewed as the primary principle in oral communication. Centering on this principle, by analyzing the classic Lasswell formula of communication, Gile's model of interpretation and the Cooperative Principle and the four maxims, this thesis probes into the way that the CP is obtained in consecutive interpretation and lists the three significant factors that affect the obtainment of the CP, namely the audio and visual information, the effect of absence and the effect of presence, and the conscious or subconscious violation of the CP; and I also come up with certain strategies with reference to the main characteristics of the oral speech of consecutive interpretation: the strategy of addition, the strategy of deletion, and the strategy of transfer. This thesis also clarifies the role of interpreters in the obtainment of the CP over the oral communication in consecutive interpretation---not the traditionally viewed passive participant of the talk, but the active participant who actually holds the manipulative power of the talk. In the end, a question is raised: to what degree can interpreters bring their potential of the manipulative power to the full?...