| Simultaneous interpreting is in essence a multi-modal communication event,the complexity of which is heightened by the necessity to process signals presented from multiple sensory modalities or channels.Auditory input in simultaneous interpreting has solicited a predominant attention as nearly the prime and sole source of information,while visual semiotic resources has long eluded academic investigation.Recently interpreting researchers began to turn their eyes to this promising field.This thesis intends to examine the visual input of text in simultaneous interpreting,exploring its impact on the output constructs of accuracy and efficiency,and the role it plays in simultaneous interpreting.There has been cognitive research suggesting that audiovisual signal redundancy will enhance the accuracy of communication tasks and penalize task efficiency by prolonging processing time,since human processors cannot process audiovisual information in strict parallel.The experimental results show that the visual input of redundant text can significantly improve the accuracy of SI performance yet makes no significant difference to the processing time.The results are interpreted from two theoretical perspectives of Single Resource Theory,which posits all cognitive tasks compete for one common,undifferentiated pool of cognitive resources,and Multiple Resource Theory,which assumes auditory and visual stimuli are fueled by separate pools of resources. |
