Journal of Advances in Education Research

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DOI: 10.22606/jaer.2018.33007

• Hu Qiyun^*
  Shanghai Polytechnic University

As a term frequently used in psychology, psycholinguistics, cognitive science, anthropology, and artificial science, Schema (plural schemata or schemas) means “an active organization of past reactions, or of past experiences, which must always be supposed to be operating in any well-adapted organic response.” (Bartlett, 1932, P.201). Given the consideration that few work has been conducted to analyze interpreting process from the perspective of schema theory, the article discusses the major kinds of schemata used in interpreting: linguistic schemata, content schemata and formal schemata and studies the effectiveness of each schemata in the interpreting process. Press Conferences of "two sessions" (of the National People's Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)) are the main source of interpreting instances, which are considered to be closer to the real interpreting process. The article aims at elaborating the effectiveness of schema in interpreting process, and hopefully, to inspire people to utilize schema theory in interpreting spontaneously.

Interpreting; schema; linguistic schemata; content schemata; formal schemata.

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