SI Pause Duration
摘要
This chapter investigates pause characteristics in English-to-Chinese SI by professional interpreters, focusing on pause duration. Section 5.1 analyzes pause duration in the target speech, while Sect. 5.2 compares it with the source speech. Section 5.3 conducts a multimodal qualitative analysis of long pauses in the interpreted output, examining the underlying mechanisms and linking pause duration to interpreter cognition and behavior.