On The Tactics Of Interpretive Interpreting In Chinese-English Press Conference Interpreting

As the biggest developing country in the world, China has been more and more frequently involved in intensive exchanges and communication with other countries and regions in almost every field since the implementation of reform and opening-up in 1979. During the communication with the rest of world, press conference interpretation (PCI) plays an important part to facilitate the communication. And interpreters in this process play the role of bridging the gap between the speakers and target audience. Therefore, the author holds that it is a necessity to conduct the study on this issue and then explore some practical and applicable guidance to PCI practices. This thesis aims to explore some useful tactics in PCI from Chinese to English based on the Interpretive Theory.Interpretive Theory proposed the triangular model of interpreting. It holds that there are three steps in interpreting, which respectively are comprehension, de-verbalization and re-expression. Besides this, this theory insists the sense of the speaker is the object of interpreting. Interpretive theory suggests the standards of faithfulness of interpreting: being faithful to the speaker; being faithful to target language; being faithful to the target audience.Sino-foreign press conference has four features: formal in speech registers; loose in language expression; rich in non-verbal information; diversified in cultural background. Based on the features and standards of faithfulness and principles of interpreting in Interpretive Theory, the author proposes six types of Chinese-English interpretive tactics, which are explanatory interpreting, contextual interpreting, simplification, amplification, logical relationship manifestation and syntactic processing. The author hopes the thesis can be helpful for PCI practices.