Research On Explicitation Of Connectives In Chinese-English Interpreting

As one of the most significant language transfer phenomena, explicitation of connectivesplays an important role in various cross-language activities. However, current research in thisarea has focused more on translation than interpreting, in terms of study scopes, scales, andlanguages involved. Thus, it is necessary to explore further into the explicitation ofconnectives in interpreting studies. This study aims to research on the nature of explicitationof connectives and provide insights for future interpreting practice and studies. With theassistance of corpus material, this research will adopt an empirical approach to studying thenature of explicitation of connectives, under which conditions explicitation occurs and howthis research can promote quality control and performance improvement in the practice ofinterpreting.On the basis of the previous research, this study proposes and examines the nature ofexplicitation of connectives and under what conditions it occurs. By building a bidirectionalinterpreting corpus of Chinese government press conferences, i.e. the NPC and CPPCC pressconferences, for the past10years (2004-2013), this research will conduct both quantitativeand qualitative analysis with the assistance of software such as AntConc. Considering theobject of this study, connectives are used as a good starting point for the research ofexplicitation in interpreting as they provide common language markers in various languages,and are added and omitted in interpreting according to the conventions of a particularlanguage. Explicitation of connectives in this study will be divided into two categories:obligatory and optional. This thesis will focus on these two types and explain reasons withvalid examples and original data. The application of obligatory and optional explicitation ofconnectives will also be analyzed in an empirical approach in order to provide practicalsuggestions, clues, and hopefully some insights for the interpreters in their future interpreting practice.This thesis concludes that explicitation is an important interpreting strategy due to itsnature, and there are certain causes for the adoption of this strategy. The application of it canpromote future practice in quality control and performance improvement in interpretingactivities. It is expected that it can provide practical insights for both academic research andinterpreting practice in the future.