职业译员与口译学员同声传译语法准确性差异的实证研究

论文摘要

本文旨在对同声传译职业译员与口译学员语法准确性的差异进行实证研究。语法准确性的差异是同传质量评估的一个重要方面,因此如何提高语法准确性对于改进口译教学和培训具有重要的现实意义。运用Barbara Moser-Mercer的质量评估理论和Daniel Gile的effort model理论,本文提出了两个假设,即职业译员与口译学员在同传的语法准确性方面具有显著差异,而这些差异在很大程度上是由于两者在精力分配上的差异造成的。本文希望通过对语法错误及其产生原因的分析,探讨如何改进口译学员的精力分配和其它能力,以期更好地促进具体的口译教学培训和学员自学。为了验证以上两个假设,本文设计了一项中译英同传实验,实验对象的一组为具有丰富同传经验的职业译员,另一组为某大学的同声传译研究生。实验步骤如下:1.通过语法前测,筛选具备相似语法水平的受试者作为合格实验对象;2.中译英同传实验;3.找出实验录音的语法准确性并进行分析;4.回访实验对象找出语法准确性差异产生的原因。在导致差异的诸多原因中,本文所做的案例分析着重研究精力分配的差异如何造成两组实验对象的语法准确性差异。通过对实验结果的分析,本文发现职业译员在精力分配上优于口译学员,从而使得前者在语法准确性方面明显胜过后者。因此本文提出,在口译教学培训和自我训练中,学员除了继续加强语言功底和扩充百科知识,应特别加强对精力分配的训练,做到对语法准确性以至口译质量的提高。

论文目录

• ABSTRACT
• 摘要
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• ABBREVIATIONS
• LIST OF TABLES
• CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
• 1.1 RATIONALE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
• 1.2 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
• 1.3 OUTLINE OF THE THESIS
• CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW
• 2.1 QUALITY ASSESSMENT IN THE WEST
• 2.2 QUALITY ASSESSMENT IN CHINA
• CHAPTER 3 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
• 3.1 MOSER-MERCER'S MODEL OF QUALITY MEASUREMENT
• 3.2 GILE'S EFFORT MODEL
• 3.2.1 EFFORT MODEL FOR SI
• 3.2.2 THE OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS OF THE EFFORT MODEL
• 3.2.3 THE COMPREHENSION FORMULA
• 3.3.THE USE OF THE TWO MODELS IN THE PRESENT STUDY
• CHAPTER 4 RESEARCH DESIGN
• 4.1 PRE-TEST
• 4.2 SUBJECTS
• 4.3 EXPERIMENT MATERIAL
• 4.4 INTERPRETING TASK
• 4.5 INTERVIEW
• CHAPTER 5 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
• 5.1 A CASE STUDY OF DIFFERENCES IN GRAMMATICAL CORRECTNESS AND THE CAUSES
• 5.1.1 THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES IN GRAMMATICAL CORRECTNESS AND THE CAUSES
• 5.1.2 A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF INTERPRETATIONS BY A PROFESSIONAL AND A CANDIDATE
• 5.1.3 A CASE STUDY OF THE EXCELLENT INTERPRETATION BY A PROFESSIONAL INTERPRETER
• 5.2 A CASE STUDY OF DIFFERENCES IN NON-GRAMMATICAL MISTAKES AND CAUSES
• 5.3 SUMMARY
• CHAPTER 6 PEDAGOGICAL APPLICATIONS
• 6.1 THE IMPROVEMENT OF SHORT-TERM MEMORY
• 6.2 THE ENHANCEMENT OF PROFICIENCY IN GRAMMAR
• 6.3 THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE COMPETENCE AND ENCYCLOPEDIC KNOWLEDGE
• CHAPTER 7 CONCLUSION
• 7.1 MAJOR FINDINGS
• 7.2 IMPLICATIONS
• 7.3 LIMITATIONS OF THE PRESENT STUDY
• 7.4 SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• APPENDIX Ⅰ CHINESE ORIGINAL
• APPENDIX Ⅱ INTERPRETATIONS