A Practical Interpretation Of Simulated Interpretation From The Perspective Of Interpretation Theory

Since the policy of reform and opening up carried 40 years ago, China has developed into the second biggest economy in the world with a shocking developing speed. In this process, China has kept a steady and fast economic developing speed with a sound social environment. People live and work in peace with the reforming measures going deeper and deeper. Naturally, China has attracted much attention from the world. Therefore, China appears in the world arena more and more frequent and is now playing really important role. As one of the permanent members in the Security Council, China has always actively taken part in the international affairs with responsible attitude, which got and deserved high praise from the world. After the successful 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Shanghai held the 2010 World Expo. In the recently past 2014, The APEC meeting was held in Beijing and went smoothly. More and more facts have proven that China has participated deeply in the world affairs and is now playing an important part.With the globalization going deeper and deeper, countries around have the need of communication and exchange and different languages naturally become the obstacle. Therefore, interpreting can serve as the "bridge". With the professional knowledge equipment, the interpreters can provide language service for the international occasions. The quality of the interpreting service can to some extent influence the effect of the conference. In a word, interpreters should use kinds of interpreting skills to finish the interpreting task.The interpretive theory originated in France in the 1960s. All the theories were derived from the interpreting and translation practices, thus having strong persuasion and guiding significance. According to the interpretive theory, translation or interpreting is actually the equivalence in meaning and effect between the source language and the target language, instead of the simple equivalence in words and phrases. Successful interpreting and translation should convey the communicative meaning which is the focus of the interpretive theory. According to the interpretive theory, the process of interpreting can be divided into comprehension, de-verbalization and reformulation.This simulating interpreting report is about a simulating conference of President Xi’s speech delivered on Confucius’ 2565th birthday and the opening ceremony of the Fifth Conference of the International Confucian Association. The simulating conference was carried out in the form of consecutive interpreting and the author served as the interpreter. Combined with the author’s professional knowledge, she conducted a deep and careful research of the simulating conference. The report will altogether include five chapters. The first chapter introduces the interpreting task, including the conference background and the analysis of the speech. Chapter two describes the process of the simulating conference, including the preparation before the conference, the interpreting process and the assessment work after the simulating conference. Chapter three will give a detailed introduction of the interpretive theory. The author will list the issues she encountered in the interpreting process and try to deal with them under the guidance of the interpretive theory. In the last chapter, the author will do a conclusion and point out the shortcomings of this simulating interpreting report.