Strategies for Note-taking in Consecutive Interpreting: A Case Study Based on Effort Model

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