An Analysis On Whispered Interpretation Based On The Working Memory Model

In this paper,the author attempts to summarize some challenges of whispered interpretation based on his own experience,and offer coping strategies with the working memory model that was created by Baddeley and Hitch as theoretical basis.Whispered interpretation is a form of simultaneous interpretation done without equipment,and is not less difficult than the typical simultaneous interpretation with a booth.Nonetheless,relatively little research has been done on said subject.The author is motivated by the idea to offer some unique analysis of whispered interpretation that is both based on previous studies,and his own experience.The research question of this paper is on how to improve the efficiency and quality of whispered interpretation by reasonably allocating short-term memory resources to reduced unnecessary memory workload.The methodologies of this paper are fieldwork for data collection,and case study for analysis,through which the author transcribes the recordings of his actual interpretation and the speaker's utterance,compares the two to identify problems with the actual interpretation,and assesses how the memory resources were allocated by referring to the author's recollection.The author discovered that consciously attempting to allocate one's memory resources reasonably can result in an obvious influence on the quality and efficiency of rendition even for an interpreter with a relatively higher command of duo language conversion.Therefore,the findings suggest that by adopting targeted strategies for different challenges,an interpreter can fare better at information processing,and make his/her rendition more understandable and fluent,all the while avoiding the trade-off of one chunk for the other.