Author(s)

Qi Duo ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Foreign Languages, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, 010021, China

Corresponding Author

Qi Duo

ABSTRACT

On January 21, 2024, the Opening Ceremony of the Second Session and the First Session of the Sixth Chongqing National People's Congress opened. The mayor, Hu Henghua, presented a report on the conference. For the first time, the conference was broadcast in Sign Language, enabling the deaf people to listen to it and to feel the care and attention given by the state to the deaf community as well as inner satisfaction. According to Gile's Effort Model, simultaneous interpreting activities can be decomposed into four parts: Listening and Analysis, Short-term Memory, Production, and Coordination, which aim to help interpreters allocate their energy in the actual interpreting process. Based on Gile's Effort Model, this study uses the case study approach to explore how sign language interpreters allocate their energy to interpretation. The study reveals that sign language interpreters encounter many challenges during consecutive interpreting at political conferences. Therefore, the interpreters must make adequate preparation before interpretation, including choosing appropriate costumes, practicing facial expressions and gestures, familiarizing themselves with political terminology, and keeping abreast of the latest developments in national politics, to avoid the uneven distribution of energy during the interpretation process and to ensure that they can complete the interpretation task efficiently. 

KEYWORDS

Gile's Effort Model, Sign Language Interpretation, Political conference

CITE THIS PAPER

Qi Duo, Study on Energy Allocation of Sign Language Interpreters in Political Meetings under Gile's Effort Model. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2024) Vol. 7: 203-211. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2024.070729.

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