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Memory Errors in Interpreting: How Background Insufficiency and Semantics Influence Interpreting

Mingjie Gao

Abstract


Memorize weakness can cause serious mistakes during an interpreting which can undermines self-esteem of interpreters and leave strong psychological implications to interpreters. In addition, memory deduction temporarily is not only happened to new interpreters who are not familiar with or show inadaptation in their new translation and interpreting career, but also professional interpreters with years of working experience. Based on this situation, this essay will mainly focus on discussing what problems memory would cause and two main reasons why they show during an interpreting progress. (The first reason is insufficient background knowledge of interpreters; the next one is vague expressions of clients are unpredictable; the last one is highly long sentences can lead to memory disorder.) Last but not least, methods of leaving this predicament will be discussed. To specifically illustrate the above-mentioned points, this essay is divided into two main parts: first, analysis of memory issues with solutions and author’s opinion at the end for each reason; second, a conclusion.

Keywords


Interpreting; Memory; Mistakes; Methods; Predicament

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v7i4.7291

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