Self-repairs And Tactics In Chinese-to-English Consecutive Interpretation

Self-repair acts as a common phenomenon in disfluent production of interpreting.The nature of interpreting determines it cannot be as fluent and accurate as written language,but full of mistakes and disfluent flows like hesitation,pause,repetition,etc.In consecutive interpreting,interpreters are required to deliver with higher accuracy and efficiency,therefore,professional interpreters should avoid too much self-repair.This thesis aims to explore the phenomenon of self-repair made by interpreting learners in Chines-English consecutive interpreting.Hopefully,this thesis can offer some insights on the learning and practice of interpreting.This thesis presents a case study on the mock conference for the Ma Yun Fund Rural Education Scheme in an attempt to analyze the phenomenon of self-repair and provide some solutions.Four types of self-repair were identified in the interpretation including different information repair,appopriacy repair,mistake repair and failed repair.Excessive self-repairs result in disfluent flows like hesitation,pause,repetition,etc.By analysis,the thesis finds that self-repair is mainly caused by failure in listening and comprehension,note-taking and oral production and proposes some solutions targeted at improving fluency in interpretation.