Reasons And Coping Strategies Of Non-Fluent Repeat In Japanese-Chinese Simultaneous Interpretation

This paper is a case study based on a Moss Burger investment presentation to analyze the phenomenon of non-fluent repeat in Japanese-Chinese simultaneous interpretation.The conference is related to catering and financial industries,and has a certain amount of terms.Slides used in the speaker’s presentation include a large number of pictures of products and graphs containing numerical information.The author counts the non-fluent repeats in the case,and divides them into six categories according to causes,which are repeats caused by unfamiliar words,repeats caused by unskilled translation strategies,repeats caused by numerical information,repeats caused by Japanese Kanji,repeats caused by differences between Japanese and Chinese grammar,and repeats caused by expression optimization.The author also classifies the non-fluent repeats in the case into two categories,prospective repeats and retrospective repeats,according to Hieke’s(1981)classification of non-fluent repeats,and finds that the non-fluent repeats in the case are mainly prospective repeats.The author proposes measures to reduce prospective repeats and retrospective repeats.Prospective repeats can be reduced by improving pre-work preparation,doing more number listening and recognition training,rembembering more Japanese Kanji and Japanese words including Japanese Kanji,and reinforcing expression ability,while retrospective repeats can be reduced by doing more syntactic linearity training and using prediction strategies.