| Declaration | 第1-4页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第4-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| List of Tables | 第8-9页 |
| List of Appendixes | 第9-10页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第10-11页 |
| Contents | 第11-14页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第14-18页 |
| ·Overview | 第14-15页 |
| ·Rationale | 第15页 |
| ·Significance | 第15-16页 |
| ·Key research questions | 第16页 |
| ·Organization of the thesis | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter Two Literature review | 第18-41页 |
| ·Overview | 第18页 |
| ·Characteristics unique to CI | 第18-22页 |
| ·The work of CI | 第18-20页 |
| ·Extemporaneousness | 第18-19页 |
| ·Stressfulness | 第19页 |
| ·Comprehensiveness | 第19页 |
| ·Miscellaneousness | 第19-20页 |
| ·Independence | 第20页 |
| ·The interpreter of CI | 第20-22页 |
| ·The interpreter: non-persons—people present but treated as absent | 第20-21页 |
| ·The interpreter: one-man show | 第21页 |
| ·The interpreter: a secondary role | 第21-22页 |
| ·The interpreter: a third party | 第22页 |
| ·The interpreter: the core of the communication | 第22页 |
| ·Interpreting as communication | 第22-26页 |
| ·Effort Models | 第26-29页 |
| ·Effort Models for CI | 第26-28页 |
| ·Interpreting operations: Automatic or non-automatic? | 第28-29页 |
| ·Filled pauses in CI | 第29-39页 |
| ·Speech errors | 第29页 |
| ·Filled pauses | 第29-31页 |
| ·Definition of filled pauses | 第29-30页 |
| ·Triggers of filled pauses in CI | 第30-31页 |
| ·Previous studies on filled pauses | 第31-39页 |
| ·Filled pauses in psycholinguistic studies | 第31-33页 |
| ·Filled pauses in oral speeches | 第33-34页 |
| ·Filled pauses in interpreting | 第34-36页 |
| ·Filled pauses in assessing CI quality | 第36-39页 |
| ·Summary | 第39-41页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第41-49页 |
| ·Overview | 第41页 |
| ·Theoretical foundations | 第41-46页 |
| ·CI: a unique model of communication | 第41页 |
| ·Effort Models | 第41-42页 |
| ·CI quality assessment | 第42-46页 |
| ·Faithfulness | 第43-44页 |
| ·Fluency | 第44-45页 |
| ·Speediness | 第45-46页 |
| ·Theoretical framework | 第46-47页 |
| ·Specific research questions | 第47-49页 |
| Chapter Four Methodology | 第49-55页 |
| ·Subjects/Ss | 第49页 |
| ·Materials | 第49-50页 |
| ·Variables and categories | 第50-52页 |
| ·Independent and dependent variables | 第50-51页 |
| ·Specific categories for dependent variable | 第51-52页 |
| ·Categories for faithfulness | 第51页 |
| ·Categories for fluency | 第51页 |
| ·Categories for speediness | 第51-52页 |
| ·Categories for overall assessment | 第52页 |
| ·Research instrument | 第52-53页 |
| ·Pilot study | 第53页 |
| ·Procedures of the investigation | 第53-54页 |
| ·Data collection | 第54页 |
| ·Summary | 第54-55页 |
| Chapter Five Results and discussions | 第55-71页 |
| ·Overview | 第55页 |
| ·Results of the ratings | 第55-61页 |
| ·Listeners' assessment on "faithfulness" | 第55-57页 |
| ·Listeners' assessment on "fluency" | 第57-59页 |
| ·Listeners' assessment on "speediness" | 第59-60页 |
| ·Listeners' assessment on the overall quality | 第60-61页 |
| ·Results of the questionnaires | 第61-62页 |
| ·Major findings of the study | 第62-64页 |
| ·The role of filled pauses in CI: more as communication noise than as a communication facilitator | 第62-63页 |
| ·Continuous CI: Hearer-friendly | 第63页 |
| ·The role of filled pauses in listeners' subjective assessment of "faithfulness" | 第63-64页 |
| ·Discussion | 第64-71页 |
| ·Interpreting going beyond public speaking | 第64页 |
| ·Ideal delivery drawing listeners' appreciation | 第64-67页 |
| ·Filled pauses affecting listeners' subjective assessment of "faithfulness" | 第67-71页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第71-76页 |
| ·Tentative conclusions drawn from the study | 第71-74页 |
| ·Filled pauses in CI: a negative effect on listeners' subjective assessment of faithfulness | 第71-72页 |
| ·Filled pause in CI: a negative effect on listeners' assessment of fluency | 第72页 |
| ·Filled pauses in CI: a negative effect on listeners' assessment of speediness | 第72页 |
| ·Filled pauses in CI: a negative effect on listeners' assessment of the overall quality | 第72-73页 |
| ·Listeners showing limited tolerance for filled pauses in CI | 第73-74页 |
| ·Implications of the thesis | 第74页 |
| ·Limitations of the thesis | 第74-75页 |
| ·Suggestion for further study | 第75-76页 |
| References | 第76-79页 |
| Appendix A Total time of Passage 1 | 第79-80页 |
| Appendix B Total time of Passage 2 | 第80-81页 |
| Appendix C Total time of Passage 3 | 第81-82页 |
| Appendix D The rating table | 第82-83页 |
| Appendix E The Questionnaire | 第83-84页 |
| Appendix F Transcript for passage 1 | 第84-86页 |
| Appendix G Transcript for passage 2 | 第86-89页 |
| Appendix H Transcript for passage 3 | 第89-90页 |
