Author(s)

Chenning Wang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Department of English and International Studies, China Foreign Affairs University, Beijing, China

Corresponding Author

Chenning Wang

ABSTRACT

Note-taking plays a significant role in consecutive interpretation. Due to human interpreters' limited brain capacities, note-taking system largely determines whether consecutive interpretation proceed smoothly or not. Note-taking in consecutive interpreting represents the main structure of the speaker's speech, which is a group of ideas in a certain order rather than an arbitrary muddle of unrelated ideas. On the basis of Daniel Gile's Effort Model, the paper conducts a case study on The 2022 Government Work Report, analyzes the problems of the author's own interpreting notes, and then puts forward the corresponding solutions and strategies for interpreters to optimize their interpreting notes.

KEYWORDS

Note-taking, Effort Model, Consecutive Interpretation, Coping Strategies

CITE THIS PAPER

Chenning Wang, Strategies for Note-taking in Consecutive Interpreting: A Case Study Based on Effort Model. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2023) Vol. 6: 51-58. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.060210.

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