An Observational Study On Omission In Simultaneous Interpreting With Texts

This dissertation is an attempt to study omission in simultaneous interpreting from the perspective of working memory.Omission, as a window to study simultaneous interpreting, has drawn considerable attention since the very beginning of the study in this field. It is noted from the literature review in this paper that the studies on omission in simultaneous interpreting mainly focused on the analysis of the classification, features and the influence on the quality of the omission from the perspective of theoretical exposition and linguistic comparison, or more often, introduce or summarize the omission as a strategy in simultaneous interpreting from the angle of practice. However, few studies have observed or analyzed omission from the perspective of the role of working memory in language comprehension and application, needless to say the analysis of non-cognitive memory features of omission from the angle of real language communication situation.Therefore, this dissertation is dedicated to analyzing the omission detected in simultaneous interpreting from the working memory framework by observing the field simultaneous interpreting and interviewing the interpreters.Findings can be drawn as: firstly, working memory is an important factor affecting information processing and interpreting result. However, the flexible application of interpreting strategy plays a much more prominent and key role in the field operation; secondly, working memory, together with other factors such as the judgment of the context and the treatment of the text, influences the cognitive processing process, jointly determining the effect or result of the field interpreting; thirdly, working memory resources are more often used in the comprehension and treatment of semantic information; and finally, seeing from the interview, it is true that the interpreter monitors the interpreting processing resources and the working resources.