Analysis On Cognitive Mechanism Of Press Conference Interpreter

Interpretation is a complicated activity of interpersonal communication. At present, researches on interpretation both at home and abroad have touched upon various fields, including cognitive science, psychology, sociology, neuropsychology, linguistic, etc. But scholars seldom make researches on interpretation from the perspective of cognitive linguistics. In addition, they rare take press conference interpretation as the corpus.In light of interpreters'working process, especially, the following procedures—comprehension, memory (note-taking) and expression, this thesis uses the relevant theories of cognitive linguistics, such as image-schematic structure, spatial metaphors and discourse marker, to explain and analyze press conference interpretation. Through the analysis, this thesis comes to a conclusion about interpreters'cognitive mechanism, that is, input of source text, logic reconstruction, and output of target text. By analyzing the mechanism in detail, the author proves the practicality of this mechanism in interpretation, and it is helpful for interpreters to improve their level of interpretation, and also it provides some guidance for interpreters. This thesis intends to enlarge the academic field in interpretation, and has integrated theories into practice. By providing the cases collected in the thesis, we can see that in the process of press conference interpretation, some theories of cognitive linguistics are reflected and can serve as some theoretic support for explaining certain phenomenon in such interpretation cases. And meanwhile, the cases collected in the thesis can serve as some evidence for cognitive linguistics theories applied in the field of interpretation.