A Study On Monitoring And Repairing Mechanism In Consecutive Interpreting Guided By Speech Production Model

Under the monitoring and repairing framework,the reflective report is intended to explore the interpreting tactics and coping strategies the interpreter adopted for error detection and correction in interpreting to promote interpreting quality and facilitate cross-language communication,based on the C-E consecutive interpreting practice at the planning conference of the US-China Disaster Management Exchange 2020.The author makes contrastive research on the whole interpreting process from the pre-task preparation outlined in chronological order,i.e.early,late,and last-minute stages.On that account,two major features of the conference attaching significance to the research are underlined: first,the speakers counted on the advisors’ supervisory and supportive roles due to insufficient foreign affairs experience and limited authority to make decisions beyond expectations;second,as the participants who are monolingual highly relied on interpreting,the unsatisfactory E-C interpretation from the US side proves a hindrance to consultative and informative communication.Thus the interpreter has to cope with the information confusion with limited energy under a complicated context featuring multidirectional information flows and demand for rectification.Concerning the reality and theoretical guides,the author recognizes Levelt’s monitoring and repairing proposal within his speech production loops,and proposes a monitoring-repairing framework applicable to the three sub-processes: Process A,with information flowing from the Chinese speaker to the author,Process B,from the author to the US attendees,and Process C,from the US interpreter to the Chinese side.Directly or indirectly involved in all the procedures,the interpreter is assumed to monitor or/and to be monitored with coping strategies for correction from the perspective of speech production,which is analyzed in the case study.Based on the research,the report draws the following three conclusions:(1)as mistakes in interpretations can become impediments to the progress of cross-language exchanges,the interpreter should maintain a dynamic balance by attaching importance to error reduction and correction;(2)the interpreter should track the progression,proactively switching the roles with tactics based on the monitoring-repairing mechanism;(3)the mechanism helps the interpreter adopt better tactics in response to the complicated context with limited energy although,its efficacy is determined by,to a great extent,the interpreter’s competence and pre-task preparations.