A Study Of Self-repairs In Chinese To English Consecutive Interpreting

The online nature of interpreting determines it can not be as fluent and accurate as written language, but full of mistakes and disfluent flows like hesitation, pause, repetition, etc. These disfluencies are closely related to interpreters’ self-repair mechanism. This thesis investigates the phenomenon of repairs in consecutive interpreting.This thesis is composed of six chapters.Chapter1gives an introduction of interpreting and self-repair mechanism. Based on the previous research conducted by Levelt, Fromkin, etc, the author summarizes the category and strategy of self-repairs in consecutive interpreting.Chapter2reviews the studies of self-repairs in both oral speech and interpreting, after which the background and necessity of this thesis is presented based on the contribution and limitation of previous research.Chapter3presents the method and procedure of the experiment. This research will be conducted with the combination of experiment, questionnaire as well as interview.Chapter4is the pilot test, which is to enhance the effectiveness of this research, and enable the author to make improvement in the formal experiment. The pilot test summarizes the reasons of disfluencies, the category of repairs and the strategies of self-repairs in consecutive interpreting.Chapter5presents the formal experiment based on the pilot test in Chapter4. With the comparison of first-year graduates and second-year graduates, this chapter analyzes the influence of interpreting skills on self-repair ability and presents teaching implications.Finally, Chapter6gives a brief summary of the previous chapters, concludes the contribution and limitations of the present study and raises tentative suggestions for future research.