Strategies In Chinese-english Simultaneous Interpreting

The thesis aims to analyze the frequently-used strategies in Chinese-Englishsimultaneous interpreting (SI) with Skopostheorie and Gile’s Effort Model as theanalytical framework. Strategy is an important topic in interpreting studies, yetexisting studies mainly focus on a certain strategy, without enough comparativestudies on a few strategies. Adopting a functional approach, Skopostheorie focusesabove all on the skopos of translation (interpreting), which determines the translation(interpreting) methods and strategies that are employed to produce a functionallyadequate result. Gile’s Effort Model can be applied not only to explain causes tointerpreting difficulties, but also to analyze strategies adopted accordingly. As a result,both the two theories can be used to analyze the applied strategies. Therefore, they areadopted as the analytical framework in this research.Taking the Ch-E SI test of the2013May professional exam organized by MIIS(Monterey Institute of International Studies) as the example, the author analyzes thecategories, purposes and functions of the major strategies applied with the method ofcase study. It is found out that while the strategies of compression, omission andaddition are used in Ch-E SI quite often for different purposes, the main skopos is tomake the interpretation more coherent and idiomatic, thus to achieve smoothcommunication between the speaker and the audience. Based on the findings, theauthor concludes some simple practical rules for compression, omission and addition.She hopes that the study can shed light on such areas as empirical studies ofinterpreting strategies, trainings on interpreting strategies and assessment ofinterpreting quality.