Lexical Chunking In The Listening And Identifying Process Of E-C Consecutive Interpreting

Against the backdrop of globalization, the courses once delivered only within thecampuses of world-renowned universities are now accessible to internet users from all overthe world, posing both challenges and opportunities for us interpreters. Modern History isan academic treat from Yale University to history lovers, providing a broad and novelvision into the social development of Britain from the late1400s to the early1700s.Lexical chunks are utterances formed by repetition, modification, and concatenationof previously known phrases consisting of more than one word. These “lexical chunks” arestored in a “phrasal lexicon” and are adapted by our productive processes to meet thedemands of different social situations. For an interpreter with Chinese being his mothertongue, the utmost difficulty in consecutive interpreting (E-C) is undoubtedly the part oflistening and identifying, in other words, matching the linguistic units in source languagewith the information stored in his long-term memory. The difficulties emerging in listeningand identifying are that interpreters are unable to catch the key message delivered in sourcelanguage, thus causing passiveness. Lack of solid preparation also makes this process evenharder. Regarding this case, lexical chunking can benefit interpreters in listening andidentifying in that it can help them segment sense groups as well as conjecture and preparein advance. In conclusion, the pressure of interpreters can be decreased and the listeningand identifying quality increased by lexical chunking.