Analysis On Loss Of Information In E-C Simultaneous Interpreting

With the ascending of China’s status and comprehensive national strength ininternational status, China has strengthened cooperation and contact with manycountries in the world in the areas of politics, economy, trade, culture, environmentalprotection, and strategic communication. Simultaneous interpreting (SI) is adopted inmany large-scaled conferences and occasions and has become an extremely popularoccupation. Due to instantaneity and high efficiency of SI in informationcommunication, people pay more attention to SI in recent years than many yearsbefore. In China, E-C SI is the most widely adopted SI form. SI is a cross-culturalcommunicative process. Communication is a dynamic system of informationprocessing and delivering. SI is a tough task because heavy information density,limited time and intense conference atmosphere will invisibly impose huge pressureand challenges on interpreters.The author uses information theory to define information. In addition, the authordefines information loss on the basis of Cai Xiaohong’s evaluation on interpreting.Information theory tells us that information is inevitably affected by noise ininformation channel in the process of transmitting information. According toinformation theory, noise in interpreting involves physical noise, semantic noise andpsychological noise.In SI, due to time limit, tense atmosphere, external factors and interpreter’s ownreasons, an interpreter tends to make mistakes of information loss in three stages ofinformation input, information storage and information output. From the perspectiveof information, the author elaborates on causes for information loss on the basis ofrelevant theoretical framework including Gile’s Effort Model and EVS throughanalyzing E-C SI video. Then, the author proposes the coping strategies forinformation loss in simultaneous interpreting.