Abstract:With the rapid development of society, internationalization and globalization have become more and more important. In order to ensure the instant exchange of information between people who speak different languages, interpretation career start to develop. Therefore, interpreters play a decisive role in affecting the quality of interpretation. As we all know, in the process of interpretation, note-taking is the main factor for the performance of the interpreters.

This paper aims to analyze the main difficulties in note-taking while interpreters are doing consecutive interpretation and tries to discover underlying causes for the difficulties. Finally, it provides some optimization schemes so that the interpreters can minimize difficulties in note-taking and improve the quality of interpretation.

Keywords:  consecutive interpretation  note-taking  difficulties  causes

Contents

Abstract

摘要

Chapter One Introduction-1

1.1 Significance of Note-taking in Consecutive Interpretation-1

1.2 Literature Review-1

1.3 Structure of This Thesis-2

Chapter Two Difficulties of Note-taking in Consecutive Interpretation-3

2.1 Inadequacy of Memorizing the Source Information-3

2.2 Improper Format of Notes-4

2.3 Over-dependence on Notes-5

Chapter Three Causes of the Difficulties of Note-taking in Consecutive Interpretation-7

3.1 The Peculiarly Complex Language Structure of the Source Information-7

3.2 The Fairly Dense Synonyms Contained in the Source Information-7

3.3 Complicated Logical Links between Each Proposition-8

3.4 Unfamiliarity with the Themes-9

Chapter Four Optimization Schemes for Note-taking in Consecutive Interpretation-11

4.1 More Practice on Source Text with Long Sentences-11

4.2 Note-taking as an Auxiliary Tool-11

4.3 Establishment of Personal Symbol System-13

Chapter Five Conclusion-15

References-16