A Report On The Simulated Chines-English Consecutive Interpreting Of The Interview "The Law Safeguards The Revival Of Cultural Tourism"

This report is based on a simulated Chinese-English consecutive interpreting project of "The Law Safeguards the Revival of Cultural Tourism",a livestreaming interview about the legal issues facing cultural tourism industry and the solutions targeted at them.Focusing on China’s experience of recovering tourism and economy as a whole in a post-pandemic period,this interview offers practical reference to the world.Due to the nature and specific linguistic features represented by colloquial speeches of this interview,the interpreter identifies four difficulties in rendering the material in English,including Chinese idioms,disjointed sentences,semantic redundancy and semantic vagueness.Based on relevance theory proposed by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson,this report aims to explore the interpreting solutions targeted at these difficulties.Through analysis of specific examples,this research proposes four strategies.Specifically,the strategy of paraphrasing is chosen to explain the connotations of Chinese idioms directly.Secondly,information restructuring is employed to change the sequence of constituents in disjointed sentences.Thirdly,facing semantic redundancy in source language,interpreters are encouraged to resort to generalization to spare more information-processing efforts of listeners.Additionally,semantic vagueness is better processed with supplementation after the inference of the missing messages.It is hoped that the report would offer workable approaches to addressing difficulties in interpreting,and thus stimulate the author to better prepare himself for practical interpreting tasks in the future.