Analysis On The Tactics Of Simultaneous Interpreting For Television Programs From The Perspective Of Skopos Theory

Simultaneous interpreting for TV programs is a new trend in China, which accelerates the coverage of major international news and facilitates dual language TV programs. From the perspective of the Skopos theory, we can be inspired to improve SI for TV programs, helping to offer more timely and quality TV programs to the audience.The thesis takes an overview of the origin of the Skopos theory and its development. As a purposeful activity, SI for TV programs, has its own characteristics, different from SI on other occasions. The Skopos theory includes three main rules: the Skopos rule, the coherence rule and the fidelity rule. It indicates that the receiver is the main factor determining the target-text purpose. But sometimes relative literalism is needed in TV programs, like live news report. Coherence is a must for TV audience to get the information they want from live news report. To some extent, news interpreters are more like newsmen than pure language service providers due to the unique characteristics of news. So fidelity to the source-language news item is required to keep the objectivity or neutrality of the news reporter, or the TV station, even the country behind.In this thesis, the writer also analyses the SI in a few real cases, trying to draw a conclusion of the tactics adopted in SI for TV programs and provide some food for thought for its future development.