On The Effort Model Of Si Employed In The Strategy Of Brevity In E-C SI

With ever-increasing international communication today, simultaneous interpreting (SI), characterized by its simultaneity, is indispensable on multi-level international occasions. English-Chinese SI is also becoming more and more popular in China. The mental and physical energy (or the processing capacity) required of an interpreter is so great that to accurately interpret the oral text almost at the same speed as its speaker produces it, in face of various interferences, is obviously a tough job. Through scrutinizing Daniel Gile’s Effort Model of SI and applying it to analyses of specific examples, the present study attempts to reveal that brevity strategy can help interpreters to reasonably allocate their attention and finally improve their interpreting quality. As can be seen from cognitive science, English-Chinese SI involves a multi- tasking process of focusing attention, coordinating sight, hearing, taking notes and speaking at one time. A contrastive analysis of English and Chinese leads to the Chinese feature of parataxis, which, in light of the Effort Model of SI, will prove the feasibility of brevity strategy employed in E-C simultaneous interpreting. Taking as a case study the simultaneous interpreting of "Michelle Obama’s Speech in Peking University in 2014", the present study analyses the interpreted version and the translated version from Phoenix Satellite TV in three aspects such as omission, simplification, and generalization. E-C SI is a competence with many interpreting skills involved, and the present tentative study is only an attempt at exploring the strategy of brevity in hope of looking into the SI process from a perspective conducive to effective and better target-language output.