| As an indispensable factor of international business negotiation, the importance of English interpreting has been gaining increasing attention in academia. International business communication is not only language communication; language, as the carrier of culture, has close relationship with culture. Because of interpreters' deficiency of pragmatic competence and cross-cultural communication competence, various failures often occur during business negotiation interpreting. These pragmatic failures can cause low communication efficiency and even misunderstanding which lead to serious result. Qualified interpreters should have sound cross-cultural communication competence including language ability, pragmatic competence and culture awareness. Reducing pragmatic failure in business interpreting and improving interpreting level plays a crucial role in international business negotiation.Based on cooperative project of the Beijing Capital International Airport Expansion, baggage handling system network integration between Siemens and Digital China, the author collected many examples from daily meeting and contract-related business negotiations. Together with the samples from foreign trade interpreting record in China Commodity Exporting Fair (Canton Fair), and some samples from various business English publications, the author classified different pragmatic failures specifically with the help of relative pragmatic theories, and explored the causes of these pragmatic failures. Grice's Cooperative Principle and Leech's Politeness Principle are employed in this thesis to provide some solutions for the pragmatic failures. Through this study, the author also proposed the suggestion for applying necessary violation of Cooperative Principle to cross-cultural business negotiation interpreting.
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