Abstract:

 Due to monolingual acquisition background and asymmetry of bilingual proficiency, nonbalanced bilingual interpreters appear to have “translation asymmetry” and parallel processing routes of both “deverbalization” and transcodge to various extents in semantic processing in interpreting. Current interpreting theories like Interpreting Theory, Information Processing Paradigm and Simultaneous CognitivePragmatic Model can explain certain cognitive processes of interpreting, but fail to explain the asymmetry and parallel routes. The Revised Hierarchical model of bilingual memory representation can explain not only the asymmetrical processing of nonbalanced bilingual interpreters without sufficient B language proficiency, but also the bilingual representation effect on the activation and inhibition of deverbalization and transcodage. Connectionist Parallel Distributed Processing Model, with such features as parallel distribution, activation upon threshold of weights and network interaction,can explain the parallel activation of both deverbalization and transcodage.  
Key words：

Key words:  , interpreting｜ semantic processing routes｜ nonbalanced bilinguals｜ Revised Hierarchical Model｜ Parallel Distributed Processing