A Study On Correlation Between Interpreter's Knowledge Schemata And Automatization In Consecutive Interpreting

In the context of globalization, the cultural exchanges and communications between China and other countries are on rise. Hence, interpreting, which is a rapid and efficient means of facilitating communication, has been playing a more and more important role these days. The last decade witnessed great progress in interpreting studies. This paper aims at finding out whether correlation exists between interpreter's knowledge schemata and automatization in interpreting by introducing the ACT* model and the term "automatization" into interpreting studies. It is the hope of the author to arouse the interest and attention of trainees and students so that they can attach great importance to knowledge accumulation.The paper starts with reviewing previous studies on schema (schemata) to highlight the important role schemata play in interpreting and translation. It also reviews relevant cognitive studies on interpreting process, introducing the ACT* theory into this study. After that, it gives a detailed explanation to the term automatization and its working definition in this paper when the theoretical framework is proposed. Then the author makes a hypotheses on the correlation between interpreter's knowledge schemata and automatization in interpreting based on schema theory and ACT* model. In the next chapter, an experiment is carried out to test the hypotheses. Data collected is processed through Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) to do the significance analysis. Conclusion on the co-relation between interpreter's knowledge schemata and automatization is thus drawn based on the analysis of the results.