The Impact Of Fast Delivery Rate On The Quality Of Chinese-English Simultaneous Interpreting And Coping Strategies

The rate of delivery,as suggested by the Effort Models of Daniel Gile,is one of the major Problem Triggers that influence the quality of simultaneous interpreting.As reflected by the author and other students during their self-practices,a fast delivery rate can pose huge challenges to trainee interpreters.This thesis,by combining both theoretical and empirical approaches,seeks to answer three questions.First,what impact would a fast delivery rate bring to the quality of Chinese-English simultaneous interpreting.Second,what are the reasons for such impacts according to the Effort Models of Daniel Gile.Third,what coping strategies can be adopted in response to these impacts.The study hopes that its findings can help trainee interpreters develop their skills to work at a fast delivery rate.The study is built upon an experiment that involves six second-year MTI students from GSTI of BFSU as the subjects.It selects a speech themed on voluntary work as the source text,which is divided into two parts with the same length but different delivery rates after processing.The students are invited to interpret these two segments and complete a post-interpreting interview.Based on the interpreting quality evaluation method of Yang Chengshu,a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the experiment results is carried out from three perspectives:faithfulness,delivery,and language.The Effort Models of Daniel Gile is introduced to explain the reasons for the impact brought by a fast delivery rate.The study finds that a fast delivery rate can influence the quality of Chinese-English simultaneous interpreting in terms of its faithfulness and delivery,but does not have strong impacts regarding the aspect of language.With respect to faithfulness,a fast delivery rate leads to more misinterpretation and information missing.For delivery,an increased delivery rate causes more cohesion/logic deviations,but meanwhile brings up the fluency of interpreting,with fewer repetitions and backtracks observed.Based on these findings,the study therefore proposes following syntactic linearity,using short sentences,and omitting secondary information as the coping strategies to mitigate the impacts of a fast delivery rate.