The Influence Of Interpreters' Analyzing Ability Of Discourse Markers On Consecutive Interpretation Process

Discourse markers(DMs),as a common linguistic phenomenon,have been studied by pragmatics linguists in recent years and have drawn more and more attention from interpretations trainees and researchers.A good command of employing DMs not only helps to perform communication smoothly but also helps to achieve coherence in a discourse.Therefore,analyzing ability of DMs is of great importance in speech communication.This thesis is intended to study the influence of interpreters' analyzing ability of discourse markers on consecutive interpretation(CI) process and explore some suggestions on how to,through improving interpreters' DMs analyzing ability, improve CI training and performance.For this purpose,the thesis starts from the process of consecutive interpreting to explore how the analyzing ability of DMs exerts influence upon three basic stages in consecutive interpretation,namely understanding,analyzing,and re-expressing. Bearing all these factors in mind,the author conducts an empirical study to investigate the influence of the analyzing ability of DMs on CI through analyzing notes, transcripts and production from ten subjects from School of Translation and Interpreting of University of Foreign Studies.The results of the experiment have been analyzed and suggestions of enhancing analyzing ability of DMs have been put forward in order to improve CI performance.In conclusion,the analyzing ability of DMs on CI is worth studying.Therefore, the empirical research on this subject is of great theoretical and practical significance.