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1、英汉、汉英双向视译中停顿现象的实证研究----英语翻译学论文-->ChapterOne:Introduction1.1NecessityoftheStudyTheevaluationofinterpretingperformancehaslongbeenapopulartopicininterpretingstudies.Overthepastdecades,scholarsandprofessionalinterpreters(Bühler,1986;Tissi,2000;Mead,2000,2002,2005)bothathomeandabroadhaveassessedtheq
2、ualityofinterpretingvariousaspects,includingquestionnairesurveysandempiricalstudiesfromthevieostallresearchesconcludedthatfluencyostimportantfactorsintheassessmentofinterpretingquality;infact,fluencyisusuallythefirstimpressionanceiscloselylinkedtotheabsenceofsilentandfilledpauses,repeats,restru
3、cturing,andfalsestarts.Amongthefourelementsmentionedabove,pausescanberegardedasatriggeroftheotherthree.AccordingtoCecot(2001),pausesare“silentintervalsofvariabledurationlocatedbetentalprocess.Yetsomeresearchers(Chambers,1997;Chafe,1985)arguedthatpauseisanormalphenomenoninlanguageproduction,prev
4、ailinginbothfirstandsecondlanguagecontexts.Chambers(1997)mentionedpausesthisorelikelytohesitateinar,thaninaroutineeverydayexchange.Silencesorpausesinthemidstofanutteranceindicatevariouskindsofsearches,fromsearchingforanidea,orforthebestmaticalform.oreover,thesestudiesultaneousinterpreting(Tissi
5、,2000;Cecot,2001);odeofinterpretationwhichinvolvesreadingawrittensourcetextandthendeliveringtarget-languag-->esentencesorally(Agrifoglio,2004:44),receivedlittleattentionintranslationandinterpretationstudies,sinceithasnotbeenfrequentlydemandedbytheprofessionalmarket.Hoanyofficialoccasions,suchas
6、apresidentialinauguration,UNconferences,orinternationalsummitmeeting,interpretersarenormallygivenspeechtextsinadvancetoavoidmisinterpretinganyinterpretingtrainingschoolsatentrancetest,andalsoisaddedintheircurriculumasanintroductorycoursetosimultaneousinterpreting.Ifpauseprovedtobeafactorintheas
7、sessmentofinterpretingperformance,itshouldbemonitoredandcorrectedattheinitialstageofinterpretingtraining.Itisalsooneoftheobjectivesofthisresearchtoshedsomelightonteachingandtrainingofsighttranslation.1.2ObjectivesoftheStudyHavingr