E-C Simulated Consecutive Interpretation Report On2014Obama’s State Of The Union Address

The material of this interpretation project is the report on2014Obama’s State of the Union Address held by US government and delivered by US president Obama in Washington on Jan.28th,2014. Having conducted an E-C simulated consecutive interpreting, the interpreter notices that frequent usage of parenthesis notably detected in the text can cause the following problems:(1) the miss of parentheses can lead to understanding difficulty. That is to say, the parentheses heard are merely some clips which lack logical connection with the whole sentence;(2) time-lag of the parentheses can also result in logical incoherence during interpreting. The interpreter can fully understand exact meaning of the original material but fails to interpret perfectly due to the fact that the speaker frequently makes replenishment or paraphrase for the previous contents.Under the guidance of interpretive theory with "deverbalization" being its core, this paper has explored effective strategies for solving the problems:prediction by inference and information simplification to solve the first one; reformulation and logical processing being helpful to solve the second one. The completion of this paper can help to cultivate the author’s interpreting competence as well as performance in the future.