Self-Repair In Simultaneous Interpreting In Relation To Directionality

Self-repair is a very common linguistic phenomenon.The demanding and complex tasks in Simultaneous interpreting(SI)make self-repair an avoidable occurrence.Researchers'opinions have been divided when it comes to directionality in interpreting.As till today,no consensus has been reached on whether interpreting from the interpreter's second language(B language)into his/her mother tongue(A language)would work out better or the other way around.Some achievement has been made in the field of self-repair and directionality respectively,though only a few have devoted to systematic elaboration on the link between these two.Therefore,this thesis aims to focus on this aspect.This thesis attempts to conduct a study on how directionality affects the frequency of and motivations behind self-repair in SI.This thesis aims to examine the link between directionality and distribution of self-repairs in SI,explore the motivations behind self-repair in different direction of SI and provide suggestions for future interpreter training and practice.This thesis takes Petite's self-repair taxonomy as the theoretical guidance,and tentatively proposes a refined classification of self-repair that is suitable for Chinese-English(C-E)and English-Chinese(E-C)SI.The current study adopts the experiment of C-E and E-C SI and a retrospective interview.Findings of the experiment are summarized as follows:(1)In C-E SI,the majority of self-repairs are error repairs;(2)in E-C SI,interpreter trainees attach most importance to appropriateness repairs;(3)in C-E SI,the motivation behind repair is to help the audience better perceive the output;(4)in E-C SI,the motivation is to ensure greater approximation to the original output.