| This thesis studies the omission phenomenon in simultaneous interpreting without script and attempts to pinpoint the causes of omission in SI and the information types that are often omitted intentionally by the interpreter.Previous researchers point out with supporting evidence that omission is often observed in simultaneous interpreting.This thesis studies omission from the cognitive-pragmatic perspective,drawing on Gile's Effort Model and the Economy Principle of Language.This thesis conducts an empirical study consisting of a SI experiment and a TAPs experiment.Four professional interpreters are asked to simultaneously interpret an eighteen-minute speech after which they participate in a TAPs to report whether they omit intentionally or unintentionally and why they present specific omissions in SI.The reported causes of omission are analyzed and categorized with reference to Giel's Effort Model.The Economy Principle of Language is employed to justify interpreters' employment of omission as a strategy in SI.Based on the analysis,this thesis achieved three findings:First,there are six major causes of unintended omission in SI,namely,failure in listening,difficulty in production,failure of short-term memory,failure in comprehension,misallocation of processing capacity and the interpreter's capacity limit.Second,there are three major reasons for the interpreter to omit intentionally:time limit,interpreter's choice of presentation mode and interpreter's choice of coping tactics.Third,in simultaneous interpreting,the interpreter tends to actively conduct information selection rather than interpret all information passively without selection and there are six types of information often omitted intentionally by the interpreter in simultaneous interpreting:comparative information,modifying information, repetitive information,contextual information,information indicated elsewhere and information violating coherence.
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