The Influence of Nonverbal Communication to Interpreting

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The Influence of Nonverbal Communication to Interpreting in Different Procedures Introduction When evaluate the quality of interpreting, many people think the essence of good interpreting lies in the accurate and appropriate expressions. Thus, they have a misunderstanding that one can do interpreting well if he has strong bilingual capability. As a result, the nonverbal communication is neglected. However, the nonverbal communication is very vital for a good performance in real situation. There are two main research pattern of interpreting process, namely procedure-oriented pattern and strategy-oriented pattern. Process-oriented pattern focuses on the description of practical processes, stages and logical development. Gerver and Moser (1978) proposed the mode of “comprehension and re-expression” which can be regarded as representatives of description-oriented pattern. Mackitosh is also one of representatives advocating this mode with his mode consisting organization, integration and production. And what’s more, D. Seleskovitch (1975), the representative of Paris School, proposed that there were three procedures of interpretation including source language understanding, deverbalization or decoding of verbal information and expressing out in target language. Compared with process-oriented pattern, the strategy-oriented pattern attach much importance in the distribution of attention and relevant results and analysis on how interpreters make prediction for the translation theme with the assistance of relevant knowledge. In resent years, more attention has been paid to the influences of non-verbal languages towards interpreting in the areas of psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics. Moser (1978) established an information dispose model to emphasize the function of long-term memory. Other scholars like Miller (1956), Shacter (1987) and Baddeley
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