Cognitive Study Of Negative Transfer Of Accent In English-Chinese Interpretation

As an important way and bridge of global communication and cooperation, interpretation plays a more and more critical role in the world. It is an indispensable medium and means of conducting and finishing converse between two sides to exchange message and thoughts. It belongs to interlingual language performance. Meanwhile, interpretation is an essential leverage for ensuring the major concerns such as communication, quality, speed, effects, etc. Three sides fulfill interpretation. Interpreter is a starter and adjuster of bilateral feedback system, and even the operator of mechanism of cooperation. Negative transfer of accent, caused by the differences of location, religion, tradition and social status, is a great barrier and difficulty to the success of interpretation. It is shown that the negative transfer of English speakers with various accents occurs in interpretation.It is increasing realized that modern science is a huge network linking any science, with no exception of cognition. The relationships between cognition and language relate to deep mechanism and superficial performance, interacting with each other. According to my literature reviewing, previous researchers have applied fewer systematical theories on studies in view of interpretation. Conducting this paper from cognition, the author discusses and summarizes the interpretative theories or models systematically.On studying interpretation, rare researchers touch upon the aspect of accent. Owing to the complicated system of accent, it is very hard to conclude the detailed rules. To solve this problem, the author chooses five countries with representatives in English accents from five continents according to Kachru's'Three Concentric Circles'. In addition, considering that interpretation requires objective practice, the author makes a case study on accents to find out factors of the negative transfer by analyzing statistics. And finally, some feasible solutions are provided to eliminate the obstacles of accents and it hoped that my efforts will throw some light on future research in the field.