Pragmalinguistic Failure Under the Negative Transfer Impact of Mother Tongue in Consecutive Interpreting and Coping Strategies

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10.2991/assehr.k.191217.162How to use a DOI?

Keywords

pragmalinguistic failure, negative transfer, consecutive interpreting

Abstract

Many types of researches have proved that the negative transfer of mother tongue has exerted a great impact on the second language acquisition. Moreover, many types of researches have shown that pragmatic failure arises during the second language acquisition. For language learners, pragmalinguistic failure can be avoided gradually by adopting some effective strategies, and their interpreting competence can be correspondingly improved. This thesis aims to probe deeper into the pragmalinguistic failure caused by the negative transfer of mother tongue. The case study of this thesis chooses the third-year college students of English major as the research object, and the author is going to analyze the errors made in the students’ final test on English-Chinese consecutive interpreting. By probing into the post-test interview and research data, it is found that pragmalinguistic failures frequently arise during the interpreting process and that errors in consecutive interpreting are mainly affected by the negative transfer of Chinese. The errors are manifested mainly on the lexical level, syntactic level, and textual level. The thesis will focus on the three aspects: vocabulary, syntax, and text. By analyzing the errors made by students in interpreting process and summarizing the causes for pragmalinguistic failure, the author aims to provide some enlightenment in teaching and to put forward some strategies to help students or interpreters to cope with pragmalinguistic failure under negative transfer impact of mother tongue.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xin Wei
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/14
TI  - Pragmalinguistic Failure Under the Negative Transfer Impact of Mother Tongue in Consecutive Interpreting and Coping Strategies
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 422
EP  - 426
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.191217.162
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.191217.162
ID  - Wei2020
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