On The Use Of Omission Strategy In C-E Simultaneous Interpretation For Interpreting Trainees

As interpreters are faced with multiple pressures of listening,understanding and processing concurrently when performing simultaneous interpreting,there is a growing trend of adopting omission strategy that preserves the key information of source language and deletes something less relevant so as to ease interpreters' burden of effort distribution and make their output more concise.However,as most of the past studies were made to prove the necessity of adopting omission strategy and conclude its advantages but barely focused on the problems that interpreters,especially interpreting trainees may encounter in their simultaneous interpreting practices,this thesis aims to explore the practice of omission strategy and find the possible reasons behind both efficient and inefficient practices of omission strategy by interpreting trainees.The research was made based on a C-E simultaneous interpreting experiment where 6 second-year interpreting postgraduates with at least half-a-year related training,were required to interpret a 2000-word speech featured with less formal expressions.Then subjects were interviewed respectively by the author to share their own attitudes towards omission and evaluate their interpreting performance in the experiment in terms of the practice of omission strategy.Based on both the experiment result and interviews with each subject,the author has drawn several valid conclusions.First,generally speaking,interpreting trainees have a good command of omission strategy in a C-E simultaneous interpreting;Second,false start and repetition are two categories that are most likely to be practiced with efficient omission.High density of information content,explicit redundancy,elaboration and linguistic omission follow in order;Third,logical inconsistency and implicit redundancy are two categories that are hard to be adopted with omission strategy;Four,efficient omission practices basically result from subjects' good understanding of omission strategies,which is accumulated through their own related experiences,while the reasons for those ill practices are various academically.Corresponding to the problems concluded above,both academic and mental suggestions are made by the author for future studies in this field and efficient practices of omission strategies in C-E simultaneous interpreting.