Treason In Interpretation For Political Affairs

As an important form of interpretation, IPA (interpretation for political affairs) has aroused more and more interest with the international political exchange getting all the more frequent recently. Since the occasions for IPA are usually international conferences, meetings, negotiations, press conferences and speeches delivered by political figures, IPA is undoubtedly closely related to the image, political and economic interest of a nation or political party and thus puts a high requirement on the language of the interpreter. As long as the essence of the original oral text can be kept, a proper degree of treason will help to bridge the cultural gap between two languages and to realize comprehensibility of the source language. Furthermore, proper treason can also give a full play to the initiative of the interpreter for the optimal communicative effect to be achieved. In these days, there emerges in the field of translation a battle between the principle of fidelity and treason, of which the latter has posed a great challenge to the supreme standard of fidelity. In this thesis, the author attempts to explore IPA, the highest-leveled as well as the most important form of interpretation, by citing some real examples and doing analysis from the angles of linguistics, psychology and cross-cultural communication to prove that treason in IPA is not only reasonable, but necessary. The interpreter should, on the basis of a full conveyance of the original text, adopt proper strategies of treason to flexibly deal with the different difficulties and obstacles in interpretation. The result of treason in this case will conceivably be a challenge to the theory of 'untranslatability' and a successful realization of the communication and interaction between the speakers and listeners.