Self-Repair In Chinese To English Consecutive Interpreting

As “overt manifestations” of the monitoring process in speech production,“self-repairs” have been explored in extensive studies on L1 and L2 speech.Since Petite's research on self-repairs in interpreting in 2005,more scholars have attempted to discover repair patterns in interpreting.However,few of them include retrospective interviews of the participants,which is crucial for classifying certain types of repairs and reflecting the monitoring mechanisms behind.This thesis aims to describe self-repairs in the production of trainee interpreters during Chinese to English interpreting by virtue of an interpreting task with retrospective interviews participated by fourteen trainee interpreters.Based on Levelt's perceptual loop theory and Gile's effort model of consecutive interpreting,it intends to reveal and analyze major types of repairs,repair strategies and causes behind.Self-repairs observed in the experiment together with their causes are identified and categorized,and repair strategies are analyzed via three parameters.Major findings include:(1)covert repairs including pauses and repetition considerably outnumber overt repairs.In overt repairs,repair for error has the largest share,followed by repair for different information.(2)On most occasions,upon trouble detection,utterances are interrupted immediately.While repair for different information has the lowest rate of instant modification and highest rate of fresh start amongst all repairs,repair for error has much higher rate of instant modification than retracing modification.(3)Leading causes of self-repairs are conceptualization,formulation and comprehension.